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Published: 25th May 1989
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A Far Cry From Kensington
By (Author) Muriel Spark
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Books Ltd
25th May 1989
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
192
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 1mm
145g
Mrs Hawkins, a fat young war widow worked for a mad, near-bankrupt publisher in 1950s London. Looking back on shady literary doings and a deadly enemy, anonymous letters, blackmail and suicide, the thin and successful Mrs Hawkins recalls how she came through it all.