Green Man Running

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2003
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It's August and Fun Week for the kids in Bethnel Green, where forty-one-year-old Dexter Bucknell, sometime publisher turned freelance copy editor, is hoping to inveigle his live-in lover, Moy, into marrying him and being a mother to his two young sons. While Moy escapes daily to her Mile End studio, Dexter is left at home to juggle work and debts and domestic chores. Further complicating their lives are Dexter's furiously letter-writing ex-wife, his mother, Moy's schizophrenic brother, and the unavoidable decision Dexter has to confront about his future.

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It's August and Fun Week for the kids in Bethnel Green, where forty-one-year-old Dexter Bucknell, sometime publisher turned freelance copy editor, is hoping to inveigle his live-in lover, Moy, into marrying him and being a mother to his two young sons. While Moy escapes daily to her Mile End studio, Dexter is left at home to juggle work and debts and domestic chores. Further complicating their lives are Dexter's furiously letter-writing ex-wife, his mother, Moy's schizophrenic brother, and the unavoidable decision Dexter has to confront about his future.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: 1st Vintage Book Edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06 Feb 2003
ISBN 10: 0099772418
ISBN 13: 9780099772415
Book Overview: 'A brilliantly sharp, funny and sensitive novel' Daily Mail 20021018

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She's funny, she's subtle, she's clever and she writes exactly the kind of flowing fiction I love. - Margaret Forster

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Author Bio

Georgina Hammick is the acclaimed author of two collections of stories, People for Lunch and Spoilt, and one novel, The Arizona Game, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award.