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020			_a9781784879303
040			_aKenya National Library Service
082			_a823.914 TON
100			_aTonks, Rosemary _eAuthor
245			_aThe Halt during the chase / _cRosemary Tonks.
300			_a228 pages : _c20 cm.
520			_a"Sophie--a clever and charming young woman--is trying to get out from under her mother's thumb. She's in love with her childhood friend Philip (pragmatic, attractive, a bit of a bore), but she often worries that she loves him too much for her own good, and that he might only be another thumb to crawl under. Both a sincere bildungsroman of Sophie's attempt to seize a life for her- self and a comic masterpiece with cutting observations and asides, The Halt During the Chase is flutteringly alive as it discusses different forms of love, adulthood ("Isn't buying new lampshades a form of slow death?"), marriage, insecurity, and stifling British snobbery and classism. Sophie's voice, fueled by Tonks's acidic narration, evolves from thrashing about in various traps into a triumphant, croaky-throated liberation song".
650			_aHumorous  fiction.
650			_aFamily _vFiction.
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