Flying Under Bridges by Sandi Toksvig
Flying Under Bridges is Sandi Toksvig's hugely enjoyable everyday tale of morals, marriage and murder.
Inge Holbrook has lived the highlife ever since she left her sleepy Home Counties hometown of Edenford. Still fantastically fit at forty-plus, she has gone from Olympic gold medallist to becoming one of the 'faces' of the BBC. Blonde (since '87), tanned (since Christmas in the Caribbean) long legs (since for ever), she has an aura of success that never fails to be attractive.
Eve Marshall hasn't. Catching her reflection in a tinfoil turkey display at her local supermarket, she sees someone old and fat, someone who looks like somebody's mother. Unlike her school friend Inge, Eve never left suburbia. Her contribution to the world wasn't to write or invent or win anything, but her two children, Tom and Shirley.
Inge and Eve are part of the same generation, grew up in the same town, went to the same school together. But adult life has left them with nothing in common apart from their past - until the summer when their lives become entwined again, when one becomes a killer, and the other approves ...
Format: Paperback | 320 pages
Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 12.5 x 2.1 | 256g
Publication Date: 15 Nov 2001
Publisher: Warner Books
Imprint: Time Warner Paperbacks
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 0751531332
ISBN13: 9780751531336
Condition: Good
A vintage book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including very, very minor scuff marks along the edges, but no holes or tears. There is a very slight lean to the spine. The majority of pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. A small handful of pages are bordered by faint small blotches of discolouring. No missing pages.