Waiting for Sheila

{{Short description|1976 Novel}}

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| language = English

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| genre = Drama

| publisher = Methuen Publishing

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Waiting for Sheila is a 1976 novel by the British writer John Braine.

Julian Barnes wrote a scathing review of the novel in the New Statesman, leading Braine to respond in a letter in which he attacked Barnes saying, "I'm not going to be reproved for materialism by a thoroughgoing middle-class materialist".Guignery p.47