Diamond Life Format:Paperback

Diamond Life Format:PaperbackA collection of urban short stories about the creative lives of London millennials. Failed aspirations, romantic fiascos, professional rivalries, and much more. This is a book packed with fake it until you make it characters. Nat sets Victor and Cleo up on a blind date, to their mutual disappointment. A married woman has seven other men, or does she? Luckless Vicky lodges with glamorous Lara and suffers a romance with toxic loser Damian. A struggling

there is a full professorship in the offingand

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Slingshot has allowed me to break free from those boxes and return to base

‘…one of the shrewdest and sharpest observers of the English social landscape’ — the Independent

‘Self-Defence’

‘Aulis’

since this is a class that has scarcely gone away

many of the stories are set in the uncertain

where Danny Mulcahy is losing the run of himself

Skinner's language is accessible but crackles with apt surprise

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