Sleeping Beauties

Sleeping Beauties

by Mavis Cheek (Author)

Synopsis

In Mavis Cheek's delightful novel, Chloe sets out to prove to Tabitha that she can give her clients the makeover of a lifetime, and the quest for feminine perfection results in hilarious consequences. When Margery Pargeter, Gemma and Caroline decide, for various feminine reasons, to submit to the skills of Tabitha and Chloe in the search for eternal youth they find themselves taking on rather more than they bargained for . . .

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 21 Apr 1997

ISBN 10: 0571179304
ISBN 13: 9780571179305
Book Overview: The author won the She /John Menzies First Novel Prize for Pause Between Acts .

Author Bio
Mavis Cheek was born and grew up in Wimbledon. She failed her eleven plus (twice!) and was put in the B stream of a secondary modern school, where she tried, completely unsuccessfully, to learn to become a good and dutiful secretary. Instead, she left school at sixteen with no qualifications and immediately began working for Editions Alecto, the contemporary art publishers, where she worked with British and American artists such as David Hockney, Allen Jones, Bridget Riley, Patrick Caulfield and George Segal and was part of the team running Alecto s gallery in Albemarle Street, at the heart of the London art market.After twelve happy years at Editions Alecto, she left to go to Hillcroft College for Women from where she graduated in Arts with distinction. She then had her daughter, Bella, and began her writing career in earnest, being blessed in this by her complete lack of qualifications to do anything else. Journalism and travel writing were her first successes, then short st