Blood Tender by Rachel Ingrams

Blood Tender by Rachel Ingrams

The sky is a bloody gold and there are riots in the street on the night Marlena arrives in Sicily. A damaged English girl with a head full of secrets, she's here to dance. Or rather, to strip: at 'Mickeys', a down-at-heel bar on the rough edges of Catania. One night, at the local club, a heart-stopping encounter with Jula Schiggiapeddi - whose pride is his Romany blood - transforms Marlena's life. Her struggle to get close to him will take her to the slopes of Mount Etna and across the length of Italy. But it will also attract the anger of Jula's embittered half-brother Savio and their mama Giosetta, a fearsome matriarch. As Savio's interest becomes increasingly obsessive, Marlena is caught in the crossfire of anti-gypsy fury and far-right politics.

A story about personal choice, love and loss.. Blood Tender is an excellent read, with a real authenticity and compelling plot * Aesthetica *
Set in Sicily, the tale of a stripper who discovers it is not easy to hang on to love; full of local colour, prejudice and cruelty * Bookseller *
Sultriness and picturesque decay lace [Ingram's] intensely characterised story * Publishing News *

Rachel Ingrams was born in 1974. Blood Tender is her first novel and is drawn in part from the times when she lived and worked in Sicily, aged 19, and when she lived in a gypsy tenement in Prague, aged 24. Rachel now lives in Sheffield where she works with young people with drug and alcohol problems.

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ISBN 13	9780955138492
ISBN 10	0955138493
Title	Blood Tender
Author	Rachel Ingrams
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Profile Books Ltd
Year published	2008-06-01
Number of pages	256
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