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Ringing For You - Anouchka Grose Forrester

Description: ISBN 0006551564 / Author: Anouchka Grose Forrester / Genre: Fiction / Trapped in a temporary job in a sleepy academic institution, a ... more

Ringing For You - Anouchka Grose Forrester ... nameless receptionist attempts both to conduct, and write a novel about, her love affair with the mysterious Man Who Mustn't be Mentioned while impeded by the unwelcome distractions of paid employment.

Newest Review: ... serious, she hits you with one line. All it takes is one line to make you break into fits of giggles until hubby decides ... more

... it's time to bring in the men with the white coats. It's just a shame it seems to trail off and leave a feeling of such immense disappointment. I'm sorry but it does. The ramblings at first are excellent. It's like a friend talking to you over coffee, spilling her heart out and trying to make sense of her life. Although we never find out the name of our 'friend'. The best narrative we have is in chapter five...more

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Ringing For You - Anouchka Grose Forrester: Are you sure you want to answer it? (1137 words)
by - written on 13/03/01 (Very useful, 78 readings)
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"Ringing For You" is a comic tale of the every day life of a receptionist. Actually, as she likes to continually point out, she's not a receptionist. She's simply someone who's temporarily working the job of a receptionist. Apparently there's a difference. She decides to take this job after realising that her Masters in the History of Punishment: from Ancient Greece to the Victorian Era, was going to do her no good whatsoever. We join her after she's joined a temping agency and already working as a receptionist. On first appearances it really does seem to be a person sat at her desk at work, noting down her ... Read the complete review