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Excess Baggage

Excess Baggage

by JudyAstley (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

    $3.58
Synopsis

A family holiday was the last thing Lucy was expecting to have. But as a penniless house-painter with an expired lease on her flat and a 12-year-old daughter, she could hardly turn down her parents' offer to take them on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Caribbean.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: 1st Paperback Edition
 Publisher: Black Swan
Published: 18 May 2000
ISBN 10: 0552998427
ISBN 13: 9780552998420
Book Overview: A family holiday in the sunny Caribbean turns into more of a torment than a treat.

Author Bio
Judy Astley was frequently told off for day-dreaming at her drearily traditional school but has found it to be the ideal training for becoming a writer. There were several false-starts to her career- secretary at an all-male Oxford college (sacked for undisclosable reasons), at an airline (decided, after a crash and a hijacking, that she was safer elsewhere) and as a dress designer (quit before anyone noticed she was adapting Vogue patterns). She spent some years as a parent and as a painter before sensing that the day was approaching when she'd have to go out and get a Proper Job. With a nagging certainty that she was temperamentally unemployable, and desperate to avoid office coffee, having to wear tights every day and missing out on sunny days on Cornish beaches with her daughters, she wrote her first novel, Just for the Summer. She has now had eleven novels published by Black Swan.