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    A Five Year Sentence

    Written by Bernice Rubens

    Narrated by Nicolette McKenzie

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    “Miss Hawkins looked at her watch. It was two-thirty. If everything went according to schedule, she could safely reckon to be dead by six o’clock.” But by the day’s end, events have taken a dramatic turn and Miss Hawkins is sentenced to live. Forcibly retired, she is presented with a five-year diary. Programmed since childhood to total obedience, Miss Hawkins slavishly follows her diary’s commands until the impossible happens – she meets a man. As a last reprieve from the horrors of loneliness she embarks on a full-scale mission to taste life’s secret pleasures – and pains – until the cup runs dry…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIsis Publishing Ltd Audio
    Release dateSep 1, 2014
    ISBN9781445041407
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    Bernice Rubens

    Bernice Rubens (1929-2004) was born in Cardiff, Wales in July 1928. She began writing at the age of 35, when her children started nursery school. Her second novel, Madame Sousatzka (1962), was filmed by John Schlesinger, with Shirley MacLaine in the leading role, in 1988. Her fourth novel, The Elected Member, won the 1970 Booker prize. She was shortlisted for the same prize again in 1978 for A Five Year Sentence. Her last novel, The Sergeants' Tale, was published in 2003. She was an honorary vice-president of International PEN and served as a Booker judge in 1986. Bernice Rubens died in 2004 aged 76.

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