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The Bluebird Cafe
Rebecca Smith
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Description for The Bluebird Cafe
Paperback. Presents a funny, bittersweet tale of love in the south of England. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 156. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747557708
SKU
KSS0001826
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Rebecca Smith
Rebecca Smith was born in London in 1966. She lives in Southampton and is working on her second novel.
Reviews for The Bluebird Cafe
'Rebecca Smith has a quirky, off-beat view of life ... her freshness and zest are immensely appealing. She has plenty of good-humoured comedy up her sleeve, a grasp of dialogue and an eagle eye for the absurd' DAILY MAIL 'Smith makes an impressively convincing case for the argument that small is beautiful in this exquisitely and wittily observed portrait ... Read more