Couchwarmer

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Summary: Words to trip over
Review: Liner notes and back-cover blurbs are really just terrible things--they impose a mood, drive away readers, and draw in a pre-selected potential audience...and are most often gushy paragraphs of nonsensical blather. Those slapped on the back of this book are no exception to my sweeping generalisation, hence I have taken it up as my duty to spread the sensical blather: Couchwarmer is superfine; a book you see as you read; a story that has kept me up past my bedtime three nights running. I live in the city in which it is set, which is a giggly thrill to Canadians (who are sorely under-represented in literary neighbourhoods), but I can assure any reader that they, too, will see the streets and the slush and muck and yuck through which the protagonist wades as if it were just around the corner.