Anne Fine is best known as a leading children's author. But she has also written eight highly-praised novels for adults, of which the latest is Our Precious Lulu. Anne describes her adult novels as "sour comedies".
Geraldine, long-suffering, dumpy and hardworking, has had her life made hell by her stepsister Lulu. Lulu, long-legged, beautiful, spiteful and ruthless, was an intolerable child and has matured into an intolerable adult.
But Geraldine's exemplary patience with Lulu has rested on one simple but long-lasting assumption about the family. And now it's dawning on her that it could, in fact, be wrong...
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