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Calendar Girl
Calendar Girl
Calendar Girl
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Calendar Girl

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Stand-up comic Maggie has fallen for "the girl with the Kelly McGillis body", a mysterious woman who can't commit herself.

Meanwhile, South London detective Saz is hot on the trail of a woman known only as "September", who commutes between London and New York in a whirlwind of drug smuggling, gambling, and high-class prostitution.

A murder brings Saz and Maggie and their respective mysteries together. Smart and sexy, Calendar Girl is a thriller high on attitude and eroticism.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 31, 2012
ISBN9781847659729
Calendar Girl
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Stella Duffy

Stella Duffy has written thirteen novels published in fifteen languages, over fifty short stories, and ten plays. She has twice won Stonewall Writer of the Year and twice won the CWA Short Story Dagger. She adapted her novel State of Happiness for film with Zentropa/Fiesta, and HBO have optioned her Theodora novels for a TV mini-series. Her story collection, Everything is Moving, Everything is Joined, and her Doctor Who novella Anti-Hero were published in 2014. Stella is also a theatre-maker; Associate Artist with Improbable, Artistic Director of Shaky Isles Theatre, founder of The Chaosbaby Project. She is the Co-Director of Fun Palaces, the campaign for greater engagement for all - in ALL culture.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    I honestly wasn’t expecting much from this book. I can’t even explain why because I have no idea. I was hoping I would enjoy it, but I just didn’t think I would. I really wish I knew why that is. All I can say is that I’m glad I was wrong. Boy was I wrong. Guys, I really, really liked this book.I absolutely loved Saz. She was by far the best character. The others were okay, but there was something about Saz. There is this one part, and I wont spoil it, but it made me laugh out loud. I couldn’t believe she got herself into that situation and I loved how she got out of it.This book might not be for everyone, but I definitely think everyone should pick it up and give it a chance.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    An annoying narrative strategy mars this, the first in Stella Duffy's series of crime novels featuring the private detective Saz Martin. I thought that "Calendar Girls" also suffered from a peculiar inconsistency of tone: social comedy set in the lesbian community in 1990s London, alternating with a rather tepid "gambling, drugs, and call girls" plot. This was Duffy's first published novel; I imagine that her later books are more convincing.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    When Saz is asked to look into the disappearance of a woman that's not a strange or new thing, but when the guy she's looking for doesn't know the name of this woman or even where she lives her curiousity is piqued.She searches for this girl in both London and New York, finding both complex issues and drug trafficking. Soz leans on her friends, finding that her target has links to the lesbian community.While the story is narrated by two people, the two voices weren't exceptionally distinct and I had to re-read the starts of some chapters to be sure who I was reading. When the two stories started to intertwine it became more interesting but I really wasn't moved by this story.

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