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Absolutely Revolting
Fiction

Adelaide Banks by Anne Berzel

by Geoff Sharrock •
December 1992, no. 147

Adelaide Banks by Anne Berzel

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Billed on the front cover as ‘an entertaining comedy of manners’, this is exactly what this light but pacy, 500-page novel turns out to be. It is the story of Andrea, a well-off wife and mother whose life changes when her husband leaves her for someone else.

 


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Adelaide Banks by Anne Berzel

Arrow, $10.95 pb

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