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Sally Mara's Intimate Diary BN_Top_100 and paints a compelling portraitSally Maras Intimate Diary, dating from 1950, is exceptional; a salacious, black humorous and meaningful story by the influential and erudite French novelist, Raymond Queneau. When Sally Mara begins her diary in January 1934, she is 17 years old and lives with her mother, older brother and younger sister in south central Dublin. The everyday language is, of course, English, but she is writing in newly learned French to impress her beloved and just