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โMy wife had gone and I didnโt know where she had gone. It would have been terrible if I had liked her but I only loved her.โ
John is an indexer, and a bloody good one at that. He lives in a beautiful house with a beautiful garden, and has a beautiful wife, Janet. (Yes, yes, they are called Janet and John. They know.)
But lately, things have begun to go wrong. Thanks to his flawless index for Haddock: The Story of the Fish Which Changed the World, John has become typecast, and a commission for an index for Squid Through the Ages in Poetry and Prose swiftly followed. And to cap it all, heโs woken up with a terrible case of the hiccups, and Janet has left himโฆ