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Georgy Girl 'Almost uncannily readable' Sunday Times Georgy is young, gregarious and funny - she is also a self-confessed ugly duckling, and desperate for love. She alternates between playing the fool as 'good old George', humbling herself before Meredith, her pretty callous flatmate, and looking for a man to seduce her. When James, rich middle-ages socialite and Georgy's self-imposed 'Uncle', asks her to become his mistress, she is tempted to accept. But then Meredith announces she is pregnant and Jos, the expectant father, decides he is in love with Georgy... As she struggles through a maze of conflicting demands and emotions, Georgy discovers that sex, a man and marriage are not everything and that life has other alternatives on offer. Irreverent, fresh and enchantingly funny, Georgy Girl became the basis of an unforgettable film and is a defining portrait of life and love in the Sixties. 'The book moves along at a funny, extremely enjoyable speed in step with Georgy's restless energy, sometimes verging on the farcical, and always contained just this side of pathos' The Times 'A superb storyteller' Evening Standard
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