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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

The Bus on Thursday

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      Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
      Published 10/18/2018
      ISBN-13 9780708898796
      978-0708898796
      ISBN-10 0708898793

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''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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