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About the Author
Julia O'Faolain was born in London in 1932. She has published many books to great acclaim, and her novel No Country for Young Men was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1980.

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Book Info

978-1-84659-060-3
Fiction
May 2009
Paperback
13 x 20 cm
376 pages
£7.99

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'Julia O'Faolain has Maupassant's gift for pacing a narrative, its heartbeat now slowing, now accelerating with dramatic suddenness.'
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Gouged into his right cheek was a scar so tender that squeamish visitors tried to stay on his left. But his friendliness could foil them, for he had a vivacious way of turning his head, and when he did, the purple scar flashed like a grin and could put off the very people he had hoped to draw close.

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