Barbara The Slut And Other People

Barbara The Slut And Other PeopleA fresh, honest, and darkly funny debut collection about family, friends, and lovers, and the flaws that make us most human. One woman takes a job selling sex toys in San Francisco rather than embark on the law career she pursued only for the sake of her father. Another realises she much prefers the company of her pit bull and herself to the neurotic foreign fling who won't decamp from her apartment. A daughter hauls a suitcase of lingerie to Mexico

Redemption

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tribute to their work over the past 90 years

The Shadow is waiting

and to heartbreak

he's coming back to the old neighbourhood

The villagers assume a simple case of suicide and fear that their debt-ridden pub will now sink without trace

but they're always ice-cool in a crisis

the insanely powerful being known as Darquesse

the powercut and the Iraq war

But when a case of mistaken identity forces her to introduce a perfect stranger as her boyfriend

she puts her obsessive movie geekery to good use