Excerpt from A Pleasure and a Calling by Phil Hogan, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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.

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