Simisola (v.o.)Hutchinson, 1994 - 323 pages In an English town, Inspector Wexford investigates attacks on black women which lead to murder. A study of the slave-like condition of foreign domestics in Britain, who are not given the status of immigrants so they can be deported if they agitate for more money. |
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Page 139
... father to give him some help with this essay he had to do and his father said , too bad because I'm going out ... ' ' I did not say that ! ' ' Because I'm going out , and he did go out . At ten to eight . I didn't suspect anything ...
... father to give him some help with this essay he had to do and his father said , too bad because I'm going out ... ' ' I did not say that ! ' ' Because I'm going out , and he did go out . At ten to eight . I didn't suspect anything ...
Page 144
... father . It reminded him , by a roundabout route , of the question he had been handed at the Women , Aware ! meeting . Having Karen , a nice - looking young woman with a no - nonsense manner , interview Joel seemed the best way ...
... father . It reminded him , by a roundabout route , of the question he had been handed at the Women , Aware ! meeting . Having Karen , a nice - looking young woman with a no - nonsense manner , interview Joel seemed the best way ...
Page 318
... father . I said we ought to tell the police but my mother got into a panic at that . Of course I can understand why now . I had a date and when I got in at about eleven - thirty my mother was in bed and Christopher was out but my father ...
... father . I said we ought to tell the police but my mother got into a panic at that . Of course I can understand why now . I had a date and when I got in at about eleven - thirty my mother was in bed and Christopher was out but my father ...
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