Description
By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, Goldsmiths Prize and Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
About the Author
Lucy Ellmann is the author of Ducks, Newburyport, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, Goldsmiths Prize and Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award. She was born in Illinois and dragged to England as a teenager. Her first novel, Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. It was followed by Varying Degrees of Hopelessness, Man or Mango? A Lament, Dot in the Universe, Doctors & Nurses and Mimi. She now lives in Edinburgh.
Reviews
Bold ... Wonderful * The Times *
Hilarious ... Razor-sharp wit * Cosmopolitan *
Dazzling ... writing of such high calibre ... flashes of humour and understanding so brilliant -- Susie Boyt * Independent *
Very funny ... a writer of wit and invention ... there is no risk she will not take * New Statesman *
Lucy Ellmann is brilliant ... so read it -- Victoria Glendinning * Literary Review *
Deeply moving ... startlingly original * ELLE *
Book Information
ISBN 9781526623515
Author Lucy Ellmann
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 190g