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Title: BURLEY CROSS POSTBOX THEFT
By: Nicola Barker
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0007356285
ISBN 13: 9780007356287
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Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
Pub. date: 1 April, 2011
Pages: 352
Description: From the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of Darkmans comes a comic epistolary novel of startling originality and wit.
Synopsis: From the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of Darkmans comes a comic epistolary novel of startling originality and wit.Reading other people's letters is always a guilty pleasure. But for PC Roger Topping contemplating a cache of 27 undelivered missives, retrieved from a back alley in Skipton, it's a job of work. The quaint village of Burley Cross has been plunged into turmoil by the theft of the contents of its postbox, and no-one is above suspicion.Yet Topping's investigation into the curtain-twitching lives of the eminently respectable Burley Cross residents not only uncovers the dark underbelly of his beat, but reveals a hitherto unknown strength of character buried deep within the young flatfoot.The denizens of Burley Cross inhabit a world of epic pettiness, where secrets are the currency. From complaints about dog shit to passive-aggressive fanmail, from biblical amateur dramatics to an Auction of Promises that goes staggeringly wrong, Nicola Barker's epistolary novel is a work of immense comic range. Irresistibly mischievous, Burley Cross Postbox Theft is Alan Bennett with added Tamiflu, sex-therapy and cheap vodka.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Fourth Estate Ltd
Returns: Non-returnable
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