A love story with interruptions
Trapped behind the switchboard of a sleepy academic institution, a nameless receptionist attempts to write a novel about her romance with the mysterious Man Who Mustn't Be Mentioned while impeded by the unwelcome distractions of paid employment.
If you carry on reading you will come across
The ins and outs of my frustrating and imperfect love-life.
A few cod-philosophical spiels about this and that (I'm sorry, but I just can't help myself).
A story which starts slowly, gradually builds up to a devastating crescendo and then stays there for a while (I'm being rather optimistic with that last bit but! assure you, at least, that I will somehow find a way to stop being a receptionist and learn some useful truths about life and love before your very eyes).
But soon a love story which was meant to start at the beginning and finish at the end (with the odd educational interlude) gets out of hand, as narrator and reader are forced to grapple with such vital topics as Lunch, Master/Slave Dialectics, Evil, the invention of the telephone, the personal safety of the Queen's husband and, above all, the confusing and comical relationship between fiction and real life.
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