Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma
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Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry Hudson
shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the South Bank Sky Arts Awards and the Green Carnation Prize When Janie Ryan is born, she's just the latest in a long line of Ryan women, Aberdeen fishwives to the marrow, always ready to fight.
more than just one of the best debuts of the year; one of the best books of the yearIt should do for Aberdeen what Trainspotting did for Edinburgh -- Louise Welsh * Herald *
'Trainspotting on a sugar rush' has been my pat description when recommending this spirited debut novel... a remarkable story of love and loyalty, of fierce passion and scabrous wit, full of characters whose broad vernacular is direct and expressive. This is about a culture with just as much right to be called British as that of middle-class suburbia -- Jonathan Ruppin * Foyles Best Fiction of 2012 *
Despite the grinding poverty, drug addiction, alcoholism and violence, this isn't a relentlessly dark book. It's an honest one: honest about the things that go wrong and about the lives that people who don't often get to be the stars in fiction really do lead... [Hudson] gives us, without a shred of hipster cynicism, the hope and tough warmth for which she has such a sharp eye -- Jenn Ashworth * Guardian *
This is the poverty trap writ large, the authentic working-class experience in all the mess and glory of the giro queue, drug and booze dependency, and gallows humour... Kerry Hudson's early life was like this. What a brilliant thing to turn the chaos and trauma of a hectic childhood into a debut novel as colourful, funny, joyful and compelling as this -- Nicola Barr * Observer *
Kerry Hudson’s fine, eloquent debut novel traces the peripatetic childhood of Janie Ryan...her tale is full of warmth and bittersweet humour -- David Evans * Financial Times *
'Trainspotting on a sugar rush' has been my pat description when recommending this spirited debut novel... a remarkable story of love and loyalty, of fierce passion and scabrous wit, full of characters whose broad vernacular is direct and expressive. This is about a culture with just as much right to be called British as that of middle-class suburbia -- Jonathan Ruppin * Foyles Best Fiction of 2012 *
Despite the grinding poverty, drug addiction, alcoholism and violence, this isn't a relentlessly dark book. It's an honest one: honest about the things that go wrong and about the lives that people who don't often get to be the stars in fiction really do lead... [Hudson] gives us, without a shred of hipster cynicism, the hope and tough warmth for which she has such a sharp eye -- Jenn Ashworth * Guardian *
This is the poverty trap writ large, the authentic working-class experience in all the mess and glory of the giro queue, drug and booze dependency, and gallows humour... Kerry Hudson's early life was like this. What a brilliant thing to turn the chaos and trauma of a hectic childhood into a debut novel as colourful, funny, joyful and compelling as this -- Nicola Barr * Observer *
Kerry Hudson’s fine, eloquent debut novel traces the peripatetic childhood of Janie Ryan...her tale is full of warmth and bittersweet humour -- David Evans * Financial Times *
Kerry Hudson was born in Aberdeen. Her first novel, Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma, won the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust First Book Award and was shortlisted for an array of prizes including the Guardian First Book Award and the Sky Arts Awards. Thirst, her second novel, won the prestigious prix Femina etranger. Lowborn is her first work of non-fiction, and her journey has led to a highly successful column for the Pool. She currently lives in Liverpool.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780701186395 |
| ISBN 10 | 0701186399 |
| Title | Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma |
| Author | Kerry Hudson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2012-07-05 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Prizes | Winner of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust First Book Award 2013 (UK), Short-listed for Portsmouth First Fiction Award 2013 (UK), Short-listed for Polari First Book Award 2013 (UK), Short-listed for Authors Club Best First Novel Award 2013 (UK) |
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