A princess, perfect in every way except one, arrives in London from a land of milk and honey and sets up home in a Notting Hill tower block. Her self-appointed mission – to break up couples in love. Men in love with women, men in love with men, and women in love with one another, in her beautiful hand she holds the ripe peach of love and deftly squeezes it dry. For what she lacks is a heart . . .
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An intelligent piece of writing that forces us to re-examine sex and love in today's society
A darkly post-modern fairy-tale for the This Life generation . . . A wise, witty, wicked book
Duffy is at her most powerful with her merciless, wickedly accurate observations on the minutiae of modern metropolitan relationships of all persuasions . . . an irresistible delight