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A girl sits on a sofa, not knowing what to do with herself. She argues with her mother and envies her older sister. She also longs for her absent father, a seaman. A middle-aged woman paints a portrait of herself as a young girl, sitting on a sofa, but she's beginning to doubt her artistic ability. Still at odds with her sister and her mother and haunted by her dead father, she's unable to shake the continuing presence of the past in her life -

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The Girl on the Sofa

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/10/2002
      ISBN13: 9781840023268, 978-1840023268
      ISBN10: 1840023260

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      Book Synopsis
      A girl sits on a sofa, not knowing what to do with herself. She argues with her mother and envies her older sister. She also longs for her absent father, a seaman. A middle-aged woman paints a portrait of herself as a young girl, sitting on a sofa, but she's beginning to doubt her artistic ability. Still at odds with her sister and her mother and haunted by her dead father, she's unable to shake the continuing presence of the past in her life -

      Trade Review
      "brilliant - Paradoxically, it creates something of great aesthetic beauty out of a work that deals with painter's block" - Guardian

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