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FROM: Betscw@aol.com
REC'D: 4/12/02, 12:42 PM

Patron left half finished unknown book on plane. Setting is England, male main character has flashbacks about his time in Hong Kong where he met a Chinese girl and together they studied Tai Chi. They break up and he moves back to London.
Thanks

Betsy White
Saratoga Library
Saratoga, CA

FROM: David Wright <dwright333@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 4/12/02, 3:03 PM

The book is "One for my Baby," by Tony Parsons,
and it is not yet in print in the U.S., but they
will find it on Amazon.co.uk. Here's the
publisher's blurb:

Alfie Budd found the perfect woman with whom to
spend the rest of his life- and then lost her, He
doesn't believe you get a second chance at love.
Returning to the England he left behind during
the brief, idyllic time of his marriage, Alfie
finds the rest of his world collapsing around
him- his parents' marriage, his grandmother's
health, his own ambition to be a writer. He takes
comfort in a string of pointless transient
affairs with his students at Churchills'a
language school, and tries to learn Tai Chi from
an old Chinese man, George Chang. and then one
day a young single mother is knocking on his door
asking him to help her get an English Literature
A Level so that she can return to college. And
Alfie's life changes. Will Alfie ever find a
family life asstrong as the Changs'? Can he give
up meaningless sex for a meaningful
releationship? And how do you play it when the
woman you like has a difficult child who is
infactuated wit a TV wrestler known as The Slab?

David Wright
Seattle Public Library


--- Betscw@aol.com wrote:
> Patron left half finished unknown book on
> plane. Setting is England, male main character
> has flashbacks about his time in Hong Kong
> where he met a Chinese girl and together they
> studied Tai Chi. They break up and he moves
> back to London.
> Thanks
>
> Betsy White
> Saratoga Library
> Saratoga, CA
>
>
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