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Blow Your House Down

by Pat Barker · 1984

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A city and its people are in the grip of a killer who is roaming the northern city, singling out prostitutes. The face of his latest victim stares out from every newspaper and billboard, haunting the women who walk the streets. But life and work go on. Brenda, with three children, can't afford to give up while Audrey, now in her forties, desperately goes on 'working the cars'.

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And then, when another women is savagely murdered, Jean, her lover, takes desperate measures...

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Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 176 pages

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