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Article: New Fiction.(Book Review)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- January 7, 2005
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Byline: STEPHANIE CROSS
Reader, I Married Him
by Michele Roberts
(Little, Brown, [pounds sterling]14.99)
MICHELE ROBERTS'S 12th novel is a deliciously black and breezy affair, the perfect antidote to dull winter days.
Our super-literate heroine, Aurora - or Dawn, as her formidable stepmother insists - has recently lost her third husband. Hugh's death follows hard upon that of Aurora's previous husbands, the hedonistic hippy Tom and the staid scholar Cecil.
Throughout her married life, Aurora feels she has adapted her personality to her partner's - and now, alone and in her 50s, she is adrift.