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A Five-Year Sentence

Bernice Rubens

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'Miss Hawkins looked at her watch. It was two-thirty. If everything went according to schedule, she could safely reckon to be dead by six o'clock.' But by the day's end, events have taken a dramatic turn and Miss Hawkins is sentenced to live. Forcibly retired, she is presented by her colleagues with a five-year diary. Programmed since childhood to total obedience, Miss Hawkins slavishly follows her dairy's commands until the impossible happens – she meets a man. As a last reprieve from the horrors of loneliness she embarks on a determined full-scale mission to taste life's secret pleasures – and pains– until the cup runs dry...

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Publisher
W. H. Allen
Year
2013
ISBN-13
9781448210923
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Loneliness and isolationLate-life self-discoverySuicide and survival

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