Stone Baby by Joolz Denby
Meet Lenny Bruce in a Dress (aka Jamie Gee), an inspirational stand-up comic with enough cutting edge to rival Boadicea. The punters love her - they think she's tough and in control - but Lily Carlson, her best friend and manager, knows better. Underneath it all, Jamie's desperate for love: the victim of a brutal past, her one fatal flaw is men, and she has an unerring ability to pick Mr Wrong. As Jamie lurches from one bastard to the next, Lily and beautiful Asian transvestite Mojo do the damage-limitation thing. But they'd all reckoned without Sean Powers, a vicious psychopath with the face and body of a god, who threatens to smash the menage ? trois that sustains them. It's easy to see what makes Jamie fall so hard for Sean, but what's in it for him? And what does he really want from her?
'Stone Baby uses the ingredients of the serial killer novel without any of the slick exploitative thrills of much of the genre to reveal the harm that ripples out from the damaged and damaging mind of a psychopathIt is an extraordinary achievement.' Natasha Cooper, Express on Sunday 'The book proceeds to its dramatic conclusion with a terrible inevitability ... but Denby never loses control of her sensitive material, refusing to sensationalise, and remaining compassionate throughout ... It's hard to imagine how anyone can read this book and remain unmoved.' Val McDermid, Glasgow Herald
Joolz Denby is Britain's foremost woman spoken-word artist. For the last twenty years she has travelled all over the world giving readings, performances, lectures and seminars. She has published three collections of poetry and stories and has appeared regularly on both television and radio.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780006514138 |
| ISBN 10 | 0006514138 |
| Title | Stone Baby |
| Author | Joolz Denby |
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| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2001-04-02 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for CWA John Creasey Memorial Award 2000, Short-listed for Crime Writers' Association John Creasey Memorial Award 2000 |
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