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Booker Prize Best Novel (nominee)
Miss Hawkins looked at her watch. It was two thirty. If everything went according to schedule, she could safely reckon to be dead by six o'clock. But by the day's end, events have taken a dramatic turn and Miss Hawkins is sentenced to live.
Forcibly retired, she is presented with a five-year diary. Programmed since childhood to total obedience, Miss Hawkins slavishly follows her diary's commands until the impossible happens - she meets a man.
As a last reprieve from the horrors of loneliness she embarks on a full-scale mission to taste life's secret pleasures - and pains - until the cup runs dry....
Genre: General Fiction
Forcibly retired, she is presented with a five-year diary. Programmed since childhood to total obedience, Miss Hawkins slavishly follows her diary's commands until the impossible happens - she meets a man.
As a last reprieve from the horrors of loneliness she embarks on a full-scale mission to taste life's secret pleasures - and pains - until the cup runs dry....
Genre: General Fiction
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