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She is eccentric but not annoying, innocent but believable.
In a wonderfully sardonic style, Bythell charts the second-hand bookseller's daily struggle for existence: dealing with his assistant ("as capable as she is eccentric"); the astonishing rudeness of customers; the excitement he always feels when he goes through people's unwanted books.
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