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Wicked

WICKED!

Janet Paisley

Jas overhears his wife in bed with an Italian. His plan to retire early and spend their winters in Italy is out the window. He tries to confront Linda but it all goes wrong. Is she toying with him? She’s toying with lots of other things - Italians, sexy underwear, massage oil. Jas tries to end it all but that goes wrong too. Is his life over? Or has he got the wrong end of the stick? Just when things can’t get worse, worse is what they get.

For all his misery Jas becomes a great comic figure, an absurd icon of male haplessness.  Time and again the reader arrives at the edge of sympathy for him, only to dissolve in another fit of manic laughter.

Janet Paisley’s Wicked! is the first Adult Literacy book, the first Quickread, to be nominated for a major literary award; The Saltire Society Book of the Year. 

RRP: £5.95
ISBN: 978-1-905207-07-7

NOMINATED FOR THE SALTIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD.

Level: 3
SMOG: 10-11

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