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    "description": "<p>Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall of his vivacious wife Vanessa, beautiful bit contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. Their provocative presence fills Guy's head with stories so wild he can't concentrate to write them. Not that anyone reads anymore, anyway. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide.His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, however, is writing her own novel. Guy dreads the consequences .......</p>",
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