The Dud Avocado

**'A champagne cocktail ... Rich, invigorating, and deceptively simple to the taste ... One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from the first sentence OBSERVER ** 'A carbonated first novel that will set male readers to thinking sheepishly of plain wrappers TIME MAGAZINE ** 'As delightful and delicate an examination of how it is to be twenty and in love and in Paris as I've ever read SUNDAY TIMES ** 'Scandalous and entertaining ... Both funny and true EVENING STANDARD