A Morning at the Office Dahlia Riyadh Coffins and grave-plots were a

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A Morning at the Office Dahlia Riyadh Coffins and grave-plots were aFrom four minutes to seven, when the aspiring black office boy, Horace Xavier, opens up the premises of Essential Products Ltd in Port of Spain in 1947 and leaves a love poem in the in tray of the unattainable, high brown Nanette Hinckson, to noon when the poetic Miss Jagabir is the last to leave for lunch, the reader is privy to the interactions and inner feelings of the characters who make up the offices microcosm. Expatriate English, Coloured