John Vir owns a newsagent in Southampton - the only shop that still stocks packets of petrified celery soup, drosophila-studded fruit and boxes of henna. Lucy and Paul are his favourite customers - they live across the road above Snooke's Electrical Stores, soon to become the Bluebird Cafe. Stencilling blue doves below the picture rails and buying stripped-pine chairs from the Oxfam furniture store Lucy works in the newly opened cafe whilst Paul spends his time at the Badger Centre as a volunteer. Meanwhile John Vir thinks of little else but Lucy and invites her to the cash 'n' carry, hoping of course, that it will be a prelude to something more exciting, for them both ...
| ISBN: | 9780747557708 |
| Publication date: | 8th April 2002 |
| Author: | Rebecca Smith |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |