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David Lindsay

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I live in Manchester, England and get up to all sorts of nonsense. Writing keeps me out of trouble ... most of the time. 'FAT Girlfriend' was written alongside working extremely long hours during my employment at CitiGroup and other financial institutions that eventually fired me. If you worked with me at any of these companies then I will probably have either used part of your character or you will recognise the characters of others (there is no one person in this book, though - every character is a figment of my imagination, with a few idiosyncrasies of others thrown in).

All proceeds from FAT G go to a small charity called 'Georgia's Children of the World'. Every penny donated goes to helping children in Romania, Cambodia and Salford (UK) ...more

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	FAT Girlfriend 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Jake has a nice job ....

Jake has hit thirty. Brought up on his older brother’s punk rock collection, his anti-establishment, two-fingered, live-for-today attitude sits uncomfortably with his safe job, good money, stock-options, final salary pension and middle-management diesel with optional heated seats. Just as he thought it couldn’t get any better, it didn’t.

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The Curator (Washington Poe, #3)

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