A far cry from Kensington.
by Muriel Spark
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Set in 1954, this is a tale narrated by one Mrs Agnes Hawkins, a plump, forthright and no-nonsense young war widow. Nancy (as she is called) is the calm at the center of the perennial storm in the offices of a struggling London publishing house in the difficult years after WWII. At work and at her seedy boarding house she is involved with a cast of characters ranging from the charmingly useless to the downright unhinged; included an author she rejects and who tries to revenge himself through a quack science known as "radionics" (use of radio waves to influence health).
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Literature publishing, Women editors, Publishers and publishing, Fiction, Widows, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Satire, England, fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, general, Englisch, Roman, Audio Adult: Books On Tape, Unabridged Audio - Fiction/GeneralPlaces
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A Far Cry from Kensington
May 01, 2011, Blackstone Audio, Inc., Blackstone Audiobooks
mp3 cd
in English
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A Far Cry from Kensington
December 1991, Listening Library
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in English
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A far cry from Kensington
1988, Thorndike Press, Available in North America by arrangement with Hougton Mifflin
in English
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A far cry from Kensington
1988, Houghton Mifflin
in English
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Originally published, London: Constable, 1988.
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