![]() Embarking on an educational programme that includes an affair with a married man (which fizzles out when she realises he's single and wants to marry her) nights in cabarets and jazz clubs in the company of assorted "citizens of the world" an entanglement with a charming psychopath and a bit part in a film financed by a famous matador.īut an education like this doesn't come cheap. Having dyed her hair pink, she wears evening dresses in the daytime and vows to go native in a way not even the natives can manage. It's the 1950s, she's young and she's in Paris. Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. ![]() ![]() The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. 'One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from the first sentence' OBSERVER 'One of the best novels about growing up fast' GUARDIAN ![]()
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