We Are All Made of Glue

From B&Q to Belarus, along with seven smelly cats, three useless handymen, two slimy estate agents, many social workers and a barmy old lady! Georgie Sinclair’s life is coming unstuck. Her husband’s left her, her son’s obsessed with the End of the World, and all those overdue articles for Adhesives in the Modern World are getting her down. So when Georgie spots Mrs Shapiro, an eccentric old Jewish émigré neighbour, rummaging through her skip in the middle of the night, it’s just the distraction she needs. And although they mistrust each other at first – Georgie doesn’t like the look of that past-its-sell-by-date fish, while Mrs Shapiro thinks Georgie needs to smarten herself up and grab a new husband – a firm friendship is formed. Then Mrs Shapiro is admitted to hospital and to Georgie’s surprise, she is named as her next of kin. But sorting out Mrs Shapiro’s semi-derelict mansion in Highbury, home to seven stinky cats, is no easy job – particularly when the handymen, ‘the Uselesses’, are doing more breaking than fixing. And what about the two slimy estate agents who want to trick Mrs Shapiro into selling her rickety old house, or the social worker determined to commit her to a nursing home? As Georgie steps in to help her new friend, she finds herself unravelling a mystery which takes her from Highbury to wartime Europe and the Middle East, learning a bit about DIY along the way…

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