Rebuilding Coventry
Sue Townsend / Author Soho Press $11 (160p) ISBN 978-1-56947-0
The author of The Adrian Mole Diaries returns with a screwball farce about life in London. (June)
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Reviewed on: 06/02/1997
Genre: Fiction
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