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Crazy Paving

Against a rising tide of commuter mayhem, three women join the daily struggle in to work. Caught up in the chaos on the streets - and in the equally savage battle surrounding their boss's extortion racket - Annette, Joan and Helly are forced to ditch everything for an offensive of their own, only to find the cruellest circumstances can make heroines of us all. Like most offices, theirs is full of intrigue, sexual desire and blackmail - and everybody thinks it is somebody else's turn to make the coffee.

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'Crazy Paving' is the brilliantly original first novel from journalist and ex-secretary Louise Doughty, full of sparkling wit and extraordinary insight - along with some humour of the very blackest kind.

Audience
adult

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