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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... perhaps you can stop Neil doing this . I can't , he never takes any notice of what I say . Anybody's got more influence with him than his own wife . ' ' Stop him doing what ? ' said Wexford . ' I've told you . Going to the - what's it ...
... perhaps you can stop Neil doing this . I can't , he never takes any notice of what I say . Anybody's got more influence with him than his own wife . ' ' Stop him doing what ? ' said Wexford . ' I've told you . Going to the - what's it ...
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... Perhaps he never saw them , perhaps he was too ' high up ' ( as Laurette Akande put it ) for that . The room was all grey , lined with filing cabinets . There was a grey chair like those the claimants sat on , a small grey metal desk ...
... Perhaps he never saw them , perhaps he was too ' high up ' ( as Laurette Akande put it ) for that . The room was all grey , lined with filing cabinets . There was a grey chair like those the claimants sat on , a small grey metal desk ...
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... Perhaps only after five years , alas and alack . I wonder what the law is on this matter ? I shall have to find out . ' Which particular net had she slipped through ? The same one perhaps as the boy with dreadlocks in the coloured cap ...
... Perhaps only after five years , alas and alack . I wonder what the law is on this matter ? I shall have to find out . ' Which particular net had she slipped through ? The same one perhaps as the boy with dreadlocks in the coloured cap ...
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