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Portobello : a novel

Call Number

  • MYSTERY REND (CEN)

Edition

1st Scribner hardcover ed.

Publication Information

New York : Scribner, c2010.

Physical Description

290 p. ; 24 cm.

Summary

Walking to the shops one day in London's Notting Hill, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction, Wren hatches a plan to find the money's rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of events that links Wren to other Londoners--people afflicted with their own obsessions and despairs. As these volatile characters come into Wren's life--and the life of his trusting fiancée--the consequences will change them all.

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