The bus on Thursday
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New York : MCD x FSG Originals/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
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New York : MCD x FSG Originals/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
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290 pages ; 19 cm
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English

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"Bridget Jones meets The Exorcist in this wickedly funny, dark novel about one woman's post-cancer retreat to a remote Australian town and the horrors awaiting her. It wasn't just the bad breakup that turned Eleanor Mellett's life upside down. It was the cancer. And all the demons that came with it. One day she felt a bit of a bump when she was scratching her armpit at work. The next thing she knew, her breast was being dissected and removed by an inappropriately attractive doctor, and she was suddenly deluged with cupcakes, judgy support groups, and her mum knitting sweaters. Luckily, Eleanor discovers Talbingo, a remote little town looking for a primary-school teacher. Their Miss Barker up and vanished in the night, despite being the most caring teacher ever, according to everyone. Unfortunately, Talbingo is a bit creepy. It's not just the communion-wine-guzzling friar prone to mad rants about how cancer is caused by demons. Or the unstable, overly sensitive kids, always going on about Miss Barker and her amazing sticker system. It's living alone in a remote cabin, with no cell or Internet service, wondering why there are so many locks on the front door and who is knocking on it late at night. Riotously funny, deeply unsettling, and surprisingly poignant, Shirley Barrett's The Bus on Thursday is a wickedly weird, wild ride for fans of Helen Fielding, Maria Semple, and Stephen King."--provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Barrett, S. (2018). The bus on Thursday (First edition.). MCD x FSG Originals/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Barrett, Shirley. 2018. The Bus On Thursday. MCD x FSG Originals/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Barrett, Shirley. The Bus On Thursday MCD x FSG Originals/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Barrett, Shirley. The Bus On Thursday First edition., MCD x FSG Originals/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.

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