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Lucinda Hoekke works at The Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random grievances.

She becomes captivated by the ruminations of one particular caller, and they fall desperately in love.

Lucinda also plays bass in a struggling band whose lyricist, Bedwin, is suffering from writer's block, and whose lead singer, Matthew, has kidnapped a kangaroo from the local zoo.

Hoping to re-charge the band's creative energy, Lucinda 'suggests' some of The Complainer's philosophical musings to Bedwin, who transforms them into brilliant songs - with disastrous consequences.

What results is a comedy of plagiarism, usurpation, and sex, with delightful echoes of Jane Austen's Emma

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Product Details
Faber and Faber
0571317936 / 9780571317936
eBook (EPUB)
813.54
31/07/2014
England
English
General
154 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Reprint. Description based on print version record. Originally published: New York: Doubleday; London: Faber, 2007.