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Virgin in the Gym and Other Stories
by Wendy Perriam
Robert Hale, pounds 18.99, 224 pp
pounds 18.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222
WENDY PERRIAM must be one of the most underrated writers in the country. You never see her riding high in the best-seller lists or walking off with literary prizes. But in an oeuvre of nearly 20 books, she has proved a consistently sharp chronicler of modern Britain. She is also an extremely entertaining storyteller.
The 20-odd tales that make up Virgin in the Gym are as crisply delivered as they are elegantly structured. There are very few duds...