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. Stencill
The Bluebird Café
✍ Scribed by Carmel Bird
- Book ID
- 111906354
- Publisher
- Ligature Pty Limited
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 108 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781922749116
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
In Tasmania, successful entrepreneur Nancy Best has recreated the defunct mining town of Copperfield as a glass-domed amusement park whose centrepiece is the Bluebird Cafe. The facsimile also includes a wax museum containing a statue of Lovelygod, the midget daughter born to the twins Bedrock and Carrillo Mean, who caused a sensation when she vanished without a trace 20 years before. Bedrock faithfully keeps vigil for her daughter's return, while Carrillo roams the world in search of her. Also haunted by the mystery is expatriate author Virginia O'Day, who returns to Tasmania from America to write a play, Waiting for Lovelygod ...' Publishers Weekly US, in the publication review of the American edition. Unlike the Australian edition, it has never been out of print.
Described by Kirkus Reviews , US, as 'a sweet-natured looking-glass version of Twin Peaks', The Bluebird Café is award-winning author Carmel Bird's debut novel and announced the arrival of a...
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