A Five Year Sentence
A Booker Prize runner up. Miss Hawkins looked at her watch. It was 2.30. If everything went to plan, she would be dead by six o'clock. But instead, having been sentenced to live, she embarked on a mission to taste life's secret pleasures. The author won the Booker Prize for "The Elected Member".
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A Booker Prize runner up. Miss Hawkins looked at her watch. It was 2.30. If everything went to plan, she would be dead by six o'clock. But instead, having been sentenced to live, she embarked on a mission to taste life's secret pleasures. The author won the Booker Prize for "The Elected Member".
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780349102238 (0349102236)
Publish date: December 31st 1991
Publisher: Abacus
Pages no: 186
Edition language: English
2.5 out of 5 StarsThis wasn’t a bad story and I actually ended up liking it better than I expected. It was sweet, occasionally amusing, and for something that was a short romance and nothing else, it was surprising lacking in trite. On the downside, as this was another one that I listened to instead...
Retiring Jean Hawkins is given a five year diary - and her life changes dramatically. Stars Sheila Reid and Kenneth Cranham.
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