Lee Langley

Last laughs | 26 May 2016

Stibbe’s teenage heroine tries to make sense of the eccentric inmates and a mountain of unpaid bills at Paradise Lodge

issue 28 May 2016

  • Paradise Lodge

    Nina Stibbe

    Viking, pp. 279

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