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In the early post-war years, Doris Lessing left her native Southern Africa in search of a grail. But the English she pursued – and found – were living in working-class homes in East London. They were lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous and full-blooded – quite unlike what they were supposed to be.In the early post-war years, Doris Lessing left her native Southern Africa in search of a grail – a life of glamour and refinement that she naively believed England offered everyone. A fascinating, hilarious memoir of her first impressions of her adopted country, 'In Pursuit of the English' brilliantly captures Lessing's constant wonder at and growing affection for the people she came to know: the working-class of the East End of London. Lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous and full-blooded, they were quite unlike the English she had expected to find…

YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MARRY ME.Waitress Maggie Walters might have sworn she'd be engaged before she turned thirty, but J.D. Duran's unromantic words were hardly the proposal of her dreams. Seeing this as perhaps her last chance at marriage, Maggie decided to take J.D. up on his offer, but she had a proposal of her own to make… ."AND SOMEDAY YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE ME."Never had such words affected the unflappable J.D. The secret agent told himself he was only marrying Maggie to keep her safe. But he was finding it increasingly difficult to keep their temporary marriage strictly in name only, leading this self-declared lone wolf to fear he might just have to succumb to Maggie's tempting dare.