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BLOOD
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 his other children. Especially on Dad's middle daughter, 37-year-old buxom bruiser Monica Ludd, who was heard "uttering threats" against her absent father. Why was her car 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, who is a big woman with big appetites, and who shares the unhealed scars of the family's dark history with her siblings. She's the "brave" one, the one who's unafraid - but how far will she go? And will Ginger, the policeman on the case, sleep with her?
Maggie Gee has written 15 books to great acclaim in the UK, including Flood and My Cleaner, and her work has been translated into fourteen languages. One of Granta's original "Best Young British Novelists" (1983, with William Boyd, Kazuo Ishiguro, Julian Barnes), she has been shortlisted for major prizes including the Orange (now Baileys), the IMPAC and been a Booker Prize judge. The first female Chair of the UK Royal Society of Literature, she is now one of its Vice-Presidents. Gee works as a professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, writes novels and journalism, and is a Director of the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society. The Queen awarded her an OBE for Services to Literature in 2012.
Blood is a Gothic black comedy seen through the eyes of six-foot Monica, who cannot help speaking her secret thoughts aloud, who is a big woman with big appetites, and who shares the unhealed scars of the family's dark history with her siblings. She's the "brave" one, the one who's unafraid - but how far will she go? And will Ginger, the policeman on the case, sleep with her?
Maggie Gee has written 15 books to great acclaim in the UK, including Flood and My Cleaner, and her work has been translated into fourteen languages. One of Granta's original "Best Young British Novelists" (1983, with William Boyd, Kazuo Ishiguro, Julian Barnes), she has been shortlisted for major prizes including the Orange (now Baileys), the IMPAC and been a Booker Prize judge. The first female Chair of the UK Royal Society of Literature, she is now one of its Vice-Presidents. Gee works as a professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, writes novels and journalism, and is a Director of the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society. The Queen awarded her an OBE for Services to Literature in 2012.
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Published 2019-02-01 by Fentum Press |