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Thoroughly modern Melanie

3 September 2016

9:00 AM

3 September 2016

9:00 AM

This exhilaratingly lowbrow first novel concentrates on money and lust or, to put it more bluntly, sex and the City. Its young heroine or chief victim — or is she actually the villain? — has already joined an investment bank and had her first one-night stand a few minutes before this savage saga begins.

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