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Getting it right

Getting it right

by Elizabeth Jane Howard

1982Fiction, generalSingle menFiction
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Getting it right was not Gavin Lamb's forte, at least where human relationships were concerned. In the hairdressing salon, he was expert with the tools of his trade. But, back home with his mother, it was quite a different matter. He didn't know how to deal with women; he was the prototype late developer. But after Joan's party, he would never be the same again ...

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Fiction, generalSingle menFiction
First published 1982

About the author

Elizabeth Jane Howard

1923

Author

Elizabeth Jane Howard

First published

1982

Pages

288

Read time

≈ 7h

Editions

6

Language

English

Publisher

Penguin (Non-Classics)

ISBN

9780140128192

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