Blood

di Maggie Gee (Autore)

Fentum Press, 2019

Who attacked Dad? When a corrupt, brutal dentist, Albert Ludd, is found battered and bloody after failing to attend a memorial party for his youngest son, suspicion falls on the dentist’s other children. Especially on Dad’s middle daughter, 37-year-old buxom bruiser Monica Ludd, who was heard ‘uttering threats’ against her absent father. How come her car is found outside Dad’s house? Why did she buy a large axe? And yet, Monica’s a deputy head teacher… Blood is a Gothic black comedy seen through the eyes of six-foot Monica, who cannot help speaking her secret thoughts aloud and who has been banned by the principal of her school, from using social media. ‘“Parents are sensitive to abuse.” “Neil, I would never abuse our parents.” “Governors queried ‘moron’ and ‘twat’.” ’ Set in an angry, anarchic, Brexit-ing Britain where terrorism has become routine, Blood also asks serious questions about modern life: what can we do with the brutal men who bully women and the weak? Can we wait for a world of order and justice? If we hit back, can the circle of violence ever be broken? It’s got everything in a novel that I really like’ Jacqueline Wilson’s Six Best Books, Daily Express ‘Audacious, playful and dazzlingly written’ Glasgow Herald ‘Maggie Gee has pulled off a remarkable feat . . . Her light touch and impeccable craft ensure invention comes hand in hand with readability. Gee’s strength as a writer is to allow the fantastical and plausible to coexist. [She] has made Woolf abundantly human once more in this exhilarating novel, with its passages of lyrical beauty that celebrate our material existence, and its passionate defence of imaginative writing’ Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain Bulletin ‘Maggie Gee has never written better’ Rose Tremain ‘Excellent. Exciting stuff’ Fay Weldon ‘A tour de force - brilliantly structured, surprising, humane, and suspenseful’ Elaine Showalter ‘Brilliant, just brilliant; deserves to be published in every language’ Hillary Jordan ‘So rich it is almost aromatic; an impressive and important novel’ Nigella Lawson ‘Outstanding: tender, sexy and alarming’ Jim Crace ‘Wickedly funny contains lines that sparkle’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Up there with Orwell and Huxley’ Jeremy Paxman, BBC ‘Maggie Gee is one of our most ambitious and challenging novelists’ Sunday Times ‘Dazzling, alternately lyrical and austere, unbearably touching’ Observer ‘For all its passion and intricacy, it is also a very funny book: rewarding, carefully written, using language echoing the water that ebbs and flows, and eventually floods the pages’ Times Literary Supplement ‘Sublimely funny and infinitely subtle, pure delight’ Daily Telegraph ‘Energetic and beguiling’ Sunday Telegraph ‘A fantastic book’ Mariella Frostrup, BBC ‘She writes elegantly, unsentimentally, expertly’ Independent ‘This beautifully observed, intelligent and moving novel is one of those rare things - a small, carefully wrapped surprise that gets better and better with the unravelling’ Scotsman ‘A moving, funny, engrossing book’ Observer ‘A rattling good page-turning yarn’ G

• Autore: Maggie Gee
• Anno edizione: 2019
• Editore: Fentum Press
• Formato: EPUB2 con Adobe DRM
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9781909572133