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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book!, June 8, 2005
This review is from: Five Year Sentence 'a' (Paperback)
I found this book on a shelf in Norway where I was visiting and I had to borrow it on my travel home to Iceland because I had to know what would happen to Mrs. Hawkins. This is one of the best books I have read, Mrs Hawkins is used to obey others her whole life (first in a orphanage, then in a factory) and the book starts on the last day at work when she is about to retire. Since she will not have anyone to obey after that she plans a suicide. But her fellows workers (whom she never talks to outside work) give her a diary for 5 years and now she can not die because it is of course her duty to write to the diary for 5 years. The orders she give herself are so funny - definitely worth reading.
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