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Name: Injury Time

Author: Beryl Bainbridge
Year: 1977
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Winner of the Whitbread award for Novel in 1977.

Edward is throwing a dinner party with his mistress, aware that she has long been denied those small intimacies his wife takes for granted - sorting his socks, for example. Things seem to be going well, but then some uninvited guests arrive: Edward might not make it home on time.
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