The Knife Drawer by Padrika Tarrant
In the house where Marie lives, the cutlery is running wild ... Madness and fairy-story creep hand in hand in this darkly comic tale, where the mice learn the art of voodoo; where murdered bodies miraculously vanish; where the grandmother is sometimes an owl and where steak-knives grow so hungry that they scream.Man Booker juries like small publishers and début novelists, so how about this as the wild card? Tarrant is the author of a collection of (very short) short stories, Broken Things, which demonstrated her sensitivity, originality and keen sense of the darkness of lifeAll elements to the fore in this creepy, gothic first novel about a house and its mice.
-- Suzi Feay * We Love This Book *
Padrika Tarrant was born in 1974. She read sculpture at Norwich School of Art, where she developed an unhealthy fixation with scissors and the animator Jan Svankmajer. Fates of the Animals is her third book, following Broken Things (Salt 2007) and The Knife Drawer (Salt 2011). She lives in Norwich with her beautiful daughter and some lovely stuffed animals. She does not entirely trust her cutlery.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781844717255 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844717259 |
| Title | The Knife Drawer |
| Author | Padrika Tarrant |
| Series | Salt Modern Fiction |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Salt Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-06-20 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Author's Club First Novel Award 2012 (UK), Long-listed for Not the Booker Prize 2011 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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