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Janice Gentle Gets Sexy

Janice Gentle Gets Sexy

by Mavis Cheek (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

    $3.31

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    Paperback 2009

    $3.73
Synopsis

Janice Gentle, under pressure from her money-obsessed agent, writes delicate, romantic novels with one goal in mind: to make enough money to find the man she loved and lost twenty years ago. But when Rohanne Bulbecker, a sucessful New York publisher, asks for Janice's help with an extremely marketable idea, it's an opportunity for Janice to abandon her usual predictable genre and try something entirely new...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 15 Nov 1999
ISBN 10: 0571200222
ISBN 13: 9780571200221
Book Overview: For her first book, Pause Between Acts , Mavis Cheek won the She /John Menzies First Novel Prize.

Author Bio
Mavis Cheek was born and grew up in Wimbledon. She failed her el even 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