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Joolz Denby (Author)

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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Serpent's Tail (Jun 1 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1852429054
ISBN-13: 978-1852429058
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13.1 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 222 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,750,298 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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From Publishers Weekly

Quirky life in a Cornish seaside town is interrupted by a cruel siren in this fourth novel by Brit Denby, an Orange Prize finalist for Billie Morgan. When Astra Sharp's mother is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, she drops out of university and moves home to Polwenna, a beach town far off the beaten path, to become caretaker for her family, including her little sister Git, twin siblings Lance and Gwen, and her dentist father. Fast forward to Astra's 27th year, when this quiet life is interrupted by the arrival of her best friend Con's younger sister, Angel, a woman "who looked as near to an orchid as a human being could." Angel sows a classic kind of discord—men long for her and women feel inadequate around her—and in her presence the thin social fabric of the town soon falls apart. In particular, Astra's surfer-boy crush, Luke, and her brother, Lance, become infatuated with Angel, even as Astra yearns for romance and her family is desperate for cohesion. Denby has a knack for the odd description and captures the local rapid-fire dialect. Astra is gabby and ruminative, but the plot, like her reasoning, often seems to go in circles. (Aug.)
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"'So gripping that it practically arm-wrestles the reader into its pungently murderous Northern plot' Saturday Telegraph With her brawling, brave, wildly flawed character, Denby joins the like of Helen Walsh in finally putting vivid female rebels on the page' Uncut 'A riveting and illuminating, yet searing, tale. Although the subject is grim, a dark humour infuses the story' Good Book Guide 'Highly recommended' The Barcelona Review 'A great page-turner about secrets and lies, revenge and eventual redemption' Diva"

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