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Annabelle Thong - A Novel Condition:Very Good Part thriller and part philosophicalLonglisted for the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction PrizeDevout Catholic schoolteacher, Annabelle Thong, never thought her chastity was a liabilityuntil she runs away to Paris to find Prince Charming. Enroling herself at the Sorbonne, she meets the suave Patrick Dudoigt, but hes the one temptation she MUST resist. Annabelles belief system is challenged on all fronts, and her navet is seen as gauche in the City of Love. Guilt and confusion make for dangerous