![]() think she looks “as if she scrubbed herself very regularly with carbolic soap.” Her hair was flat, her upper teeth protruded, and she wore spectacles with plain, tortoise-shell rims.” Her fellow typists at Boothby, Gold & Co. She’s “tall and ungainly, with large feet and hands which made sudden, gawky movements. Miss Finlay, Marchant’s heroine, is both dark horse and ugle duckling. This might have been what made the book a life changer for its fan on Twitter. ![]() There’s something comfortably nonconformist about Give Me Your Answer Do. The poster provided no further information, but the sheer scarcity of the book (fewer than five copies for sale) was enough for me to take the plunge. ![]() I’m always intrigued when I come across a book that’s completely new to me, and this one was a blank slate. “At the office Miss Finlay was something of a dark horse.” That opening line hooked me.Ī while ago, someone on Twitter posted a picture of Give Me Your Answer Do in answer to a request for books that changed readers lives. ![]()
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