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In the tackroom she found a drooping Louise hanging up Dino’s tack, which she’d been cleaning on the drive home. She turned to Rupert. I’ll ring him up. Her father was a hairdresser.

”Dino looked half-smug, half-sympathetic. DEDICATIONTo Beryl Hill, the Arthur Rubinstein of the typewriter, with love and gratitude Acknowledgemen “Then she’s just a whore, going to bed with you on the first date. He learnt far too early in life that, by making himself unpleasant, he could get his own way.