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| | Independent, The (London): Books: Scoring on the metropolitan lines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Putting his money where his mouth is, Baylis injects the final third of his rather lumpy novel with an abundance of over-the-top twists: Strange being run over by a transsexual van driver, sparring with an Indian flmailer, and discovering that his boring old dad was once a wandering spy who throttled a homicidal Estonian. |
 | | Meanwhile, in another part of Fulham, Sophie Stewart's Sharking finds a posse of semi-posh, twentysomething layabouts lost in a blizzard of drug and drink dependencies. |
 | | There's Lucinda, Cassie, Jinty, Sebastian - your basic Sloaney loafers; and, worst of all, there's Tara, the self- absorbed, self-seeking narrator who will do just about anything to get her mitts on another wrap of coke or slug of vodka. |
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