Edition: Paperback
ISBN: 9780571242658
Published:
No of pages: 224

Switchboard

£12.00

It was a balmy London evening - mid-summer. Half of London were attending Everest parties. If Sue and Eddie had switched the light off - or even stayed away from the window - none of it would ever have happened ... Following on from the success of A High-Pitched Buzz , we are once again plunged into the world of advertising in the 1950s. It's a world of expense account lunches, Bentleys and champagne, outrageous promiscuity and heart-breaking loss.

First published in 1957, once again Longrigg demonstrates brilliant comic inventiveness, an exceptional ear for dialogue and a talent for disarming romanticism in this moving, highly entertaining novel.

'Brimming with talent. Longrigg is a real discovery.' New Statesman

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Categorised as: Fiction
Sub-categories: General Fiction
Places: London
Genres & Themes: Faber Finds; Advertising; Decadence; Workplace

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