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The Timewaster Letters

by Robin Cooper · 2004 · 192 pages

Part of The Timewaster Letters series

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The hilariously surreal correspondence of Robin Cooper, frustrated children's author, fairy-spotter and fancy-spoon collector, in the bestselling tradition of the Henry Root letters - but with an entirely fresh perspective

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Genre
humor
Setting
2000sbritish
Audience
adult
Length
short · 192 pages
Form
epistolary

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