Presenting... the Fabulous O'Learys by Caron Freeborn

Presenting... the Fabulous O'Learys by Caron Freeborn

Roll up, roll up, ladies and gentlemen, see the freaks in their natural habitat. Only cost you your bloody soul.

"Its about the pain of being aliveAnd yet it's so so funny." Marian Keyes, author of Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, This Charming Man,The Woman Who Stole My Life.; `The O'Learys come crackling off the page; their speech has an authentic rhythm at the same time utterly strange. It's like getting your ear in for a different music, and realising you knew it all along. On every page the language bites you, or licks your earlobe.' Michael Bywater, critic, columnist, and author of Lost Worlds, and Big Babies; "Caron Freeborn's novel is a magnificently tricky piece of work, at once subtle and riotous, poignant and funny. It is a glorious celebration of difference." Joanne Limburg, author of The Woman Who Thought Too Much and A Want Of Kindness;"Vivid, empathetic and spikily witty, Presenting... The Fabulous O'Learys takes us on a turbulent voyage along familial tributaries, rich with irrepressible characters." Daisy Black, Circus Performer in The Electric Rodeo Circus,Lili La Scala's Another F*cking Variety Show, etc.; "There are books that entertain you, books you recommend to others and then, just occasionally, there are books that get under your skin and stay there. Perhaps it's because each time you return to them, there's something you recognise with delight and yet so much else to find. Presenting the Fabulous O' Learys is such a book." Elizabeth Speller, author of The First Of July, Following Hadrian, The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton, etc

Caron Freeborn was a novelist (Three Blind Mice, Prohibitions) until she gradually became a poet instead. Her first full poetry collection was Georges Perec is my hero (2015). Against class expectations, she has taught at university level for years, and is writing a poetry textbook. She is also working with photographer Steve Armitage on a project about their home town, Basildon, putting voice poems into his unpeopled pictures. With Presenting...The Fabulous O'Learys, Caron Freeborn makes a triumphant return to prose fiction.

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ISBN 13	9781910688359
ISBN 10	1910688355
Title	Presenting... the Fabulous O'Learys
Author	Caron Freeborn
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Holland House Books
Year published	2017-10-19
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.