During
a year of urban chaos and bombing campaigns, three women struggle to
work in the same office in Central London. Their work is dull and their
boss corrupt, but that is about to become the least of their
problems...a tale of office intrigue, betrayal and revenge which the
Observer newspaper described as 'like Dickens with a one-day
Travelcard.'
'A first novel bubbling with talent...one knows at once that here is a
writer with constantly alert powers of observation and a happy gift for
a phrase. The little dramas are handled with a mixture of poignancy and
humour... All in all, here is a debut of outstanding promise.'
Evening Standard
'Doughty
has created touchingly sympathetic characters. Her women are sufferers
and, in the end, survivors. Alan Ayckbourn says that tragedy is comedy
interrupted, where comedy is tragedy interrupted. This is where Crazy Paving
succeeds. For the humour entertains so swingingly throughout that only
in the final chapter are you made aware of any serious issue at stake
here. Together, these elements create an amusingly thoughtful first
novel.'
Literary Review
CRAZY PAVING