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For Maria, nothing is certain. Her life is a chain of accidents. Stumbling through university, work, marriage and motherhood, she finds it hard to see what all the fuss is about. Will she ever be able to control the direction of her life? Or will it end, as it began, by accident? What does chance have in store for the accidental woman?
First publish date: April 1987
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Jonathan Coe
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