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Paperback in acceptable to good condition (186 pages)
Shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1978
'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 by her colleagues 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.ￂﾠ As a last reprieve from the horrors of loneliness she embarks on a determined full-scale mission to taste life's secret pleasures and pains until the cup runs dryￂﾠ
