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Miss Webster And Chérif

by Patricia Duncker · 2007

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Elizabeth Webster is a spinster pushing seventy. Forced out of her teaching job, she unleashes her sharp tongue and dogmatic opinions on everyone in the English village of Little Blessington. Then, one night, she grinds to a dead halt. To recover from this illness, she travels to North Africa where she has a brush with terrorism - not that she cares about politics. Three weeks after Miss Webster has returned home her doorbell rings. There stands a beautiful young Arab man carrying a large suitcase. Who is he, why is he there and what does he want?

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agingagingMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 244 pages

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