Sucking Shrimp by Stephanie Theobald
A precocious child of the 1970s feels stifled by her dull life in a small English seaside town. The only glamour in her world is Fanny Cradock's weekly TV cookery programme with its exotic concoctions of Tournedos Rossini, Crepe Suzette or Provencale octopus stew with mauve duchesse potatoes, which speak to our heroine of escape, foreign climes and sophistication. When she finally makes it abroad, however, the earthy, picaresque realities of Spain cause her to question who she really is. As her sense of self begins to curdle, she is forced to deal with unpleasant truths about her past.
'Does for Paris what Armistead Maupin did for San Francisco' - Guardian on BICHE 'Sexy..funky...funny...rebellious' - Julie Burchill on BICHE 'Very funny and spectacularly sordid...BICHE is like a delicious souffle sprinkled with minutely observed details... Highly entertaining' - Time Out on BICHE 'Among the most genuinely evocative and amusing naughty stuff I've ever read...A witty, mucky, authentic book, which puts a new and most welcome spin on this looking-for-the-one genre' - Evening Standard on BICHE 'Comic, tender and with lashings of rude bits' - The Times on BICHE
In her early thirtes, Stephanie Theobald spent five years in Paris as fashion editor of The European magazine. She now lives in London and writes for the Guardian.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780340768440 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340768444 |
| Title | Sucking Shrimp |
| Author | Stephanie Theobald |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2002-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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