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OctaviaJilly Cooper

Octavia

1977217 pages
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8 editions
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Octavia Brennan is a beautiful yet flawed young woman, living the high life in 1970s London. Though she is deeply flirtatious and has, by her own admission, slept with many men, she has never found happiness with any of them. After bumping into an old school friend, Gussie, and falling for her fiancé, Jeremy, Octavia is invited to spend the weekend with them on their canal boat. Characteristically, she convinces herself that Jeremy cannot possibly have real affection for the overweight and clumsy Gussie, and she is determined to win Jeremy by the end of the weekend. But when Jeremy invites…

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Editions

8 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2005
    Corgi · 199 pages · 9780552152525
  • Audiobook · English · 1992
    MacMillan Publishing Company · 9780816192717
  • Other · English · 1999
    Chivers · 288 pages · 9780754037255
  • Other · English · 1996
    Corgi · 190 pages · 9780552148924
  • Other · English · 1982
    Fawcett · 224 pages · 9780449245453
  • Other · English · 1982
    John Curley & Assoc · 288 pages · 9780851198521
Fiction, romance, generalEngland, fiction