The Newsagent's Window : Adventures In A World of Second-Hand Cars And Lost Cats: John Osborne
The Newsagent's Window : Adventures In A World of Second-Hand Cars And Lost Cats: John Osborne
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Moving into an unfurnished house, John uses the ads in newsagents' windows to buy things like a bed and a settee. On impulse, one day, he replies to an advert for a psychic masseur named Lucy, who tells him some home truths as he sits on her settee in his underpants. So begins a year of self-discovery and an obsession with newsagents' windows, taking John to a shoe-exhibition, an Ayckbourn play, to a wrestling match. He becomes the owner of a man's entire video collection, a clapped-out Ford Escort - and discovers a community of a bygone age. Looking to improve his German, he meets a pretty German girl named Leni...