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''Intoxicating'' Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation

''Barrett''s brilliant second novel plummets headlong into a darkly funny tale'' Mail on Sunday

Bridget Jones meets Twin Peaks in this black comedy about a woman''s retreat to a remote Australian town and the horrors awaiting her.

It wasn''t just the bad breakup that turned Eleanor Mellett''s life upside down. It was the cancer. And all the demons that came with it.

One day she felt a bit of a bump when she was scratching her armpit at work. The next thing she knew, her breast was being removed by an inappropriately attractive doctor, and she was subsequently inundated with cupcakes, besieged by judgy support groups, and the ungrateful recipient of hand-knitted sweaters from her mum.

Luckily, Eleanor finds that Talbingo, a remote little town, needs a primary-school teacher. Their Miss Barker upped and vanished in the night, despite being the most cari

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''Intoxicating'' Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation''Barrett''s brilliant second novel plummets headlong into a darkly funny tale'' Mail on SundayBridget Jones... Read more

    Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
    Publication Date: 10/18/2018
    ISBN13: 9780708898796, 978-0708898796
    ISBN10: 0708898793

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    ''Intoxicating'' Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation

    ''Barrett''s brilliant second novel plummets headlong into a darkly funny tale'' Mail on Sunday

    Bridget Jones meets Twin Peaks in this black comedy about a woman''s retreat to a remote Australian town and the horrors awaiting her.

    It wasn''t just the bad breakup that turned Eleanor Mellett''s life upside down. It was the cancer. And all the demons that came with it.

    One day she felt a bit of a bump when she was scratching her armpit at work. The next thing she knew, her breast was being removed by an inappropriately attractive doctor, and she was subsequently inundated with cupcakes, besieged by judgy support groups, and the ungrateful recipient of hand-knitted sweaters from her mum.

    Luckily, Eleanor finds that Talbingo, a remote little town, needs a primary-school teacher. Their Miss Barker upped and vanished in the night, despite being the most cari

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