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|title=Twenty-One Locks

|author=Laura Barton

|date=July 2010

|isbn=978-1849161749

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This debut novel's central character is 20 year old sales girl, Jeannie. She lives a very humdrum life in a rather ugly, down-at-heel town in the north. And straight away Barton treats the reader to her lovely, descriptive prose. For example, when the reader is given some detail about Jeannie's workplace at the perfume and cosmetics counter where ... ''the lipsticks ... all lined up like chorus girls ...'' Barton's writing style is very easy to read, very fluid and I found myself getting right into the story straight away - and caring about Jeannie.