Blood by Maggie Gee
Literary black comedy with lashings of thriller. Adult children take revenge on their brutal father, but the victim crawls back A wise and beautiful book about what it feels like to be alive Zadie Smith Fast-moving, energetic, constantly surprising Hilary Mantel Supremely artful Lionel Shriver
Maggie Gee (Virginia Woolf in Manhattan, 2019) has published fifteen books to great acclaim, and her work has been translated into fourteen languages. One of Granta's original 'Best Young British Novelists' (1983, with William Boyd, Kazuo Ishiguro, Julian Barnes), she has been shortlisted for major prizes including the Orange (now the Women's) Prize, the IMPAC and been a Booker Prize judge. The first professional writer in her family and from the first generation to go to university (Academic Scholar, Somerville College, University of Oxford), she was the first female Chair of the UK Royal Society of Literature, and is now one of its Vice-Presidents. Gee works as a Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, writes novels and journalism, and is a Director of the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society. The Queen awarded her an OBE for Services to Literature in 2012.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781909572126 |
| ISBN 10 | 1909572128 |
| Title | Blood |
| Author | Maggie Gee |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Fentum Press |
| Year published | 2019-02-07 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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