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Louise Tondeur

Louise Tondeur is working on a PhD in heads, hats and hair at Reading University. Her first novel, The Water’s Edge, is published on 3 March 2003 by Headline.

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Holy, profane, or just a good old fashioned number one cut? Shaving, with its multiple readings and ramifications, still has the power to make some people’s hackles rise. A young writer takes us on a guided tour of the long, and of course, the short of it.