Quite honestly
Lucinda Purefoy has just graduated from Manchester University with a degree in social services. In an effort to "do a little good in the world" she joins an organization that helps ex-convicts get a new start in life. Little does she know the complications that her first "client", a career-burglar, will bring into her life!
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Ex-convicts > Rehabilitation > Fiction. Young women > Fiction. Mentoring > Fiction. |
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Humorous fiction. Satirical literature. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 0670915769
- Physical Description 206 pages
- Publisher London : Penguin, 2005.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 38.00 |
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Summary
Quite Honestly
Life couldn't be better for Lucinda Purefoy. Granted it's a little embarrassing, her father being the Bishop of Aldershot, but she's got a steady boyfriend, a degree in social sciences from Manchester University and the offer of a job in advertising. With all that, she felt she should pay back her debt to society' and do a little good in the world'. Praeceptors'), an organization which trains girls like Lucy to become the guide, philosopher and friend' to ex-convicts coming out of prison, to find them a job, a home and to encourage them to kick the habit of stealing things. windy March morning, waiting to greet her first SCRAP client', a career-burglar called Terry Keegan. What happens next confounds expectations and produces a story full of surprises. and a compulsive plot, Quite Honestly is a wonderfully comic novel, packed with John Mortimer's entertaining reflections on crime.