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A Pleasure and a Calling by Phil Hogan

A Pleasure and a Calling

by Phil Hogan
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  • Jan 6, 2015, 288 pages
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  • Jan 2016, 288 pages
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But, I hear you ask, with some scepticism (and with that gun to my head) . . . of all the many splendid houses you've sold in your seventeen years in the business, you just happened to have the key to that particular one? To which I would answer, of course not – I have the keys to them all.

Excerpted from A Pleasure and a Calling by Phil Hogan. Copyright © 2015 by Phil Hogan. Excerpted by permission of Picador. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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