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The Bluebird Café

The Bluebird Café
The Bluebird Café
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 Café. Stencilling blue doves below the picture rails and buying stripped-pine chairs from the Oxfam furniture store Lucy works in the newly opened café 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...
9780747557708
Bloomsbury Publishing
Smith, Rebecca
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Smith, Rebecca
855a318f-1376-4e0d-b554-530ad45a4956

Smith, Rebecca (2002) The Bluebird Café , London, UK. Bloomsbury Publishing, 224pp.

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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 Café. Stencilling blue doves below the picture rails and buying stripped-pine chairs from the Oxfam furniture store Lucy works in the newly opened café 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...

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Published date: 8 April 2002

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Local EPrints ID: 48585
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/48585
ISBN: 9780747557708
PURE UUID: 1a4e47b3-c6d5-4ef6-a0a0-3a47b39e409b

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Date deposited: 01 Oct 2007
Last modified: 05 Sep 2024 17:07

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