Not in Newbury
By: Mary Scott.
Series: 90s
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 1993
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Description: Alice, an independent woman of the 90s, has a way with words. Like any angst-ridden speaker, she feels trapped by the tyranny of their meanings. Her therapeutic solution is to compile her own dictionary - now she will be able to make words mean what she wants.

This everyday tale of bankrupt relationships and lonely hearts marries Wittgenstein with Mills and Boon - it suggests that if you can't get your (wo)man then at least you should be accurate in your disdain. In a book that is both brittly funny and profound, Mary Scott confirms her unerring ability to capture the semantics of our times.
Notes: "A paperback original"--P. 4 of cover.