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Alison Wonderland

Alison Wonderland

by HelenSmith (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

    $4.22

  • Used

    Paperback 1999

    $3.31
Synopsis

Having given up a boring nine-to-five job to become a private detective, Alison finds that most of her working life is spent spying on unfaithful husbands. In offices. From nine to five. Until Project Brown Dog. From somewhere on the coast of England, rumours arise of the sinister genetic crossbreeding of unsuspecting animal species. Alison is assigned to investigate the truth. With her friend Taron - a woman with a hundred-candle smile and a unique, if ambitious, mission to improve the world - she travels from London to Weymouth and back, rocked by a shocking discovery. Part adventure story, part dissertation on anything and everything from Japanese knotweed and psychic postmen to why women with great bodies wear the chunkiest bikinis, Alison Wonderland is a kaleidoscope of acute observations and comic virtuosity.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 14 Sep 2000
ISBN 10: 0575402628
ISBN 13: 9780575402621
Book Overview: Published in paperback alongside Helen Smith's new novel, Being Light The perfect marriage of cult and commercial appeal: Chosen by Julie Burchill in the Guardian as one of her books of the year: 'Helen Smith's first novel, Alison Wonderland, made me sigh and throw it to the floor in a fit of envious pique' 'Only occasionally does a piece of fiction leap out and demand immediate cult status. Alison Wonderland is one... Bridget Jones with a plot, sort of... Wry, witty and aggressively self-conscious... Smith is at the very least a minor phenomenon. Watch this book blossom in every office handbag' Peter Millar, The Times

Author Bio
Helen Smith writes novels, children's books, poetry and screenplays. She was attracted to writing as a career when, as a child poet, her rhyming iambic pentameters inspired lavish praise from her parents. In the long gap between this early recognition of her talents and publishing her first novel, Alison Wonderland, she and her daughter travelled together around the world. Now she lives in London.