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Seventh Floor
Cupid
by Anne Olsen
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Books of Zimbabwe, 1980
190 x 130 mm, viii, 122 pp., 10 cartoons, 1980.
ISBN (Std) 0 949931 02 0, (Pbk) 0 949931 Ol
2.
Anne Olsen who runs one of the country's leading marriage
bureaux tells how she has put her personal misfortune and
experience to work in alleviating the heart-break of others.
Quite often humorous, though mostly poignant, the 'case histories'
of a great variety of 'star-crossed lovers' are unfolded, each
one shielded by anonymity.
There is the woman whose first pregnancy miscarried - to be told
on recovery that she would not be able to have other children,
whose husband, in his wild Latin grief, consequently rejected her;
the over-sixty widower who was perturbed to think that his 'new'
fiancee, a spinster, might be a virgin; the lovely trusting girl
who was drugged at a party; a man whose prospective mother-in-law
put a spanner in the works; the mother who plotted secrefly with
'Cupid' to find a partner for her jilted daughter; the young man
disfigured by a land-mine accident; and another who was too good-looking
for his own good; and the sad ones who realise too late that 'proving'
their love and compatibility by living together just does not
work.
It is written in compassionate vein, with keen insight into human
foibles, and with understanding of the problems of the lonely and
of those in search of companionship. It is sprinkled with light-hearted
passages and these are illustrated with Rose Martin's humorous
cartoons.
"... a little book that packs more human emotion into
its pages than most novels."
SUNDAY NEWS
"Cleverly combining pathos with humour; the former
journalist gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes picture of how
people react to their contrived introductions in her role as
Cupid." THE HERALD
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