Books by Tom Wakefield and Complete Book Reviews

War Paint
War Paint
Tom Wakefield, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-11094-9
Heavily made-up, flaunting ``long, dangling purple ear-rings'' and liberally doused with ``Soir de Paris'' perfume, eccentric, exuberant schoolteacher Kay Roper arrives in the English mining village of Padmore in the early 1940s. Exceptionally...
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Lot's Wife
Lot's Wife
Tom Wakefield, Author Serpent's Tail $9.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-85242-152-6
Marked annoyance with ageism and a touch of earthiness steer Wakefield's ( The Variety Artistes ) warm, humorous tale of love and revolt in a retirement home safely clear of sentimentality. Henry Checket and Peggy Thurston balk at playing along...
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The Variety Artistes
The Variety Artistes
Tom Wakefield, Author Serpent's Tail $10.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-85242-138-0
Like Lydia Poulton, the winning protagonist of his humorous, shrewd novel, Wakefield ( Forties' Child ) possesses a capacious vision. A sensible, mildly dissatisfied London widow, Lydia adores romance novels, douses herself with Lily of the Valley...
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