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Octavia

Jilly Cooper

1977199 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1977
first published
  • 1992MacMillan Publishing Company · ENGISBN 9780816192717
  • 1982Fawcett · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9780449245453
  • 1982John Curley & Assoc · 288 pagesISBN 9780851198521
  • 2005Corgi · 199 pages · ENGISBN 9780552152525

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 Welsh firebrand Gareth Llewllyn along for the ride, Octavia finds her plans disrupted in more ways than one. - from wikipedia

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