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Siren Boyd's birthday takes a turn for the worse when she is summoned to the home of her uncle, Big George Hay. George wants to hold a huge barbeque that will be the envy of his underworld rivals and he's decided that Siren is the woman to organise it. Handfuls of money make it an offer she can't refuse.' (Publisher's blurb, back cover).
Notes
Dedication: For Amaelia, the home girl
Epigraph:
Not much difference
between me
and a vegetable
at present:
except that the vegetable
is more fulfilled
in having achieved
full vegetableness.
'Gardeners too must grow' Graham Alcorn
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