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A warm, witty and wise debut novel about a man with a month to live who embarks on a whirlwind tour of all the places he’s ever dreamed of visiting – from Amsterdam to Zanzibar.

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ISBN: 9781846271113 Author: Richardson, Cs Publisher: Portobello Books Ltd Publication Date: 2nd March 2009 Imprint: Granta Books Cover: Paperback Dewey: 813.6 (edition:22) Pages: 157 Language: English Readership: General - Trade / Code: K Category: Subject:

Some time around his fiftieth birthday, Ambrose Zephyr fails his annual medical check-up. An illness of inexplicable origin with no known or foreseeable cure is diagnosed and it will kill him within a month. Give or take a day. In the time that remains, he decides to travel to all the places he has most loved or ever wanted to visit, in strict alphabetical order. And so Ambrose and his wife Zipper embark on a strange adventure that takes them further and further away from home and doesn’t quite turn out as either of them had expected.

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