Women in the Background
Barry Humphries
325 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0749323582
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 1995
Barry Humphries’s first novel. Mrs Petty is a famous housewife with a successful TV show. She is also Derek Pettyfer – fiftyish, cultured, set in his ways. His arrival at any party, however sophisticated, always provokes a discreet little frisson amongst the guests. But Derek is also lonely.