Tag: shouldn’t take her too seriously though because she was also under the impression that when her daughter got kissed at the altar it was her very first kiss

Someone I love: Joan Wyndham Someone I hate: Ernest Hemingway Combine them and you get: Elaine Dundy As you can imagine, I had a strange combination of feelings about The Dud Avocado.  It’s a semi-autobiographical novel about a young expatriate American party girl and her relationship with an American man called Larry, whom she runs across in Paris.  When she runs into Larry, she’s involved with a married Italian, but she immediately fancies herself in love with Larry and becomes involved in a theatre production that he’s directing.  Along the way she has various romantic entanglements and – well, okay,…