Paradise Lodge. [Author SIGNED copy.]

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn. [Complete number line 001.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's handwritten black felt-tip pen signature - without dedication - to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,4-colour block (b/w+yellow and red pictorial artwork by Lauren Tamaki,illustrated front panel,with black+red lettering,rear panel with a black line illustration and black+red lettering; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges very lightly toned but clean,fore- edges clean with very slight thumbing; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked fluorescent red gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,and immaculate plain maroon endpapers.UK,small 8vo HB+ dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,3-274pp [paginated] includes Pts 1+2 comprising 13 and 21 chapters respectively; plus [unpaginated] half-title,author SIGNED title page,a dedication,an epigraph (P. G. Wodehouse - from Uneasy Money),individual Pts separator pages,and to the rear; acknowledgements with a blank reverse and a further 4pp blanks.
This is the story of Lizzie Vogel,a fifteen-year-old girl who finds herself working in an old people's home in Leicestershire in the 1970s.The place is in chaos and it's not really a suitable job for a schoolgirl: she'd only gone for it because she wanted a new phase and it seemed too exhausting to commit to being a full-time girlfriend or punk.Lizzie has some knowledge of old people (they're not suited to granary bread,and you mustn't compare them to toddlers) but she doesn't know there's a right,and a wrong,way to get someone out of the bath.
When a rival old people's home with better parking and a daily chairobics threatens to take all their patients, Paradise Lodge's cast of staff and helpers - from the assertively shy nurse who only communicates through little grunts,to the son of the Chinese takeaway manager who's renowned for his erotic handholding techniques - must come together to save the home before it;s too late.
From the bestselling author of 'Love, Nina' comes a brilliantly comic story of being very young,and very old,and the laughter and the tears,in between.
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