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Fluke

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Fluke

By Joseph Mazur

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About the book

What are the chances?! This exclamation greets the scarcely believable coincidence - you're picked up by the same taxi driver several years and thousands of miles apart or, in a second-hand bookshop far from home, you find your own childhood copy of Winnie-the-Pooh on the shelf. But the unlikely is more probable than you think. Against every fibre of common sense, the fact is that it's quite likely that some squirrel, somewhere, will be struck by lightning as it crosses the road.The chaos and un...Show more

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ISBN

9781780749006

Publisher

Oneworld Publications

Published year

2017

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1

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Fluke

Format

Paperback

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