What You Need
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Canada
- Initial publish date
- May 2012
- Category
- General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781443402187
- Publish Date
- May 2012
- List Price
- $11.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780006394075
- Publish Date
- Aug 2004
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
T. Buddy Whelper, a man “who threw himself into the world like a boomerang,” has achieved his dream of living in a calm, controlled oasis of fix-it tools and home-cooking books. A misguided strip-o-gram lands Dorene, a woman scorned and on the run, in Buddy’s bachelor apartment. Dorene discovers in Buddy a conveniently anonymous safehouse and a bewildered but accommodating host. The novel takes flight and the mattress is set bouncing as an unlikely love affair blossoms. Delightfully breezy but with a black comic punch, this is a read that is joyous and fearless in every way.
About the author
ELIZA CLARK'S debut novel, Miss You Like Crazy, was shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour and the Trillium Book Award. Her most recent novel, Bite the Stars, received wide acclaim and is under option for film. Eliza Clark works as a television producer and currently lives in Toronto.