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Flying Under Bridges - Sandi Toksvig

 
Description: ISBN 0751531332 / Genre: Fiction / Inge and Eve are part of the same generation, grew up in the same town, went to the same school ... more
Flying Under Bridges - Sandi Toksvig ... together. But adult life has left them with nothing in common apart from their past - until the summer when their lives become entwined again, when one becomes a killer, and the other approves.

Newest Review: ... she is good at, like organising people's cupboards perhaps. Then her old school friend Inge Holbrook returns to Edenford ... more

 ... along with partner Kate, who is dying from cancer of the womb. Lesbianism is something that Eve, and Edenford, aren't entirely ready for: "Kate and Inge were a lesbian couple. She wondered how that worked with no man. Who was in charge?" Inge is a former Olympic champion athlete turned BBC sports presenter - except that the BBC don't have any sport to present any more of course. But the Beeb have asked her to present a new programme called "Don't Even Go There!" - the title being all ...more

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Premium Review Flying Under Bridges - Sandi Toksvig: Lesbians invade suburbia (645 words)
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"...guests ruin weddings all the time, although I will admit it is probably less usual for them to do it by killing the groom." ...so writes Eve Marshall from her cell in Holloway Prison while on remand for the murder of her prospective son-in-law. This is the story of how she came to be there. Eve and her hubby Adam, live in ...wait for it... EDENford - a typical Tory-shire village somewhere in middle England. Their children are named after Shirley Bassey (Adam's heroine) and Tom Jones. Tom is an eco-warrior who protests against the construction of a bypass by pitching his tent in the path of the bulldozers. ...  Read the complete review

 

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