‘Echoes of Angela Carter’s more fantastical fiction reverberate through this exuberant tale of a hermaphrodite Jekyll and Hyde figure … enjoyably energetic’ SUNDAY TIMES‘Echoes of Angela Carter’s more fantastical fiction reverberate through this exuberant tale of a hermaphrodite Jekyll and Hyde figure … enjoyably energetic’ SUNDAY TIMESLate nineteenth-century Manchester is a city of charms and dangers – the perfect playground for young siblings, Edie and Gnome. But as they grow up, they grow apart, and while Gnome revels in the night-time, Edie wakes each morning, exhausted and uneasy, with only a dim memory of the dark hours.Convinced she deserves more than this half-life, she tries to break free from Gnome and forge her own future. But Gnome is always right behind, somehow seeming to know her even better than she knows herself. Edie must choose whether to keep running or to turn and face her fears.The Night Brother is a dazzling and adventurous novel exploring questions of identity, belonging, sexual equality and how well we really know ourselves.Praise for The Night Brother:‘Rosie Garland writes in a tumble of poetry, desire and passion, as intriguing and delicious as the story she tells’ Stella Duffy‘A rich and ambitious tale … Garland's prose is a delight: playful and exuberant’ THE TIMES‘Echoes of Angela Carter’s more fantastical fiction reverberate through this exuberant tale of a hermaphrodite Jekyll and Hyde figure …enjoyably energetic’ SUNDAY TIMESPraise for The Palace of Curiosities:‘Garland’s lush prose is always a pleasure’ GUARDIAN‘A jewel-box of a novel … Garland is a real literary talent: definitely an author to watch’ Sarah Waters‘An alternately brutal and beautiful story about love and belonging in a vividly conveyed underworld, rich in carny phantasmagoria and lyrical romance’ METRO‘Bewitching’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING‘Reminds me of Angela Carter’ Jenni MurrayRosie Garland is a novelist, poet, performer and singer with post-punk band The March Violets. An eclectic writer, she started out in spoken word, going on to garner praise as a performance poet. Her award-winning short stories, poems and essays have been widely anthologised, and her sixth poetry collection, As In Judy, is out now with Flapjack Press. She is the author of Vixen, a Green Carnation Prize nominee. Her debut novel, The Palace of Curiosities, won Book of the Year in the Co-op Respect Awards 2013 and was nominated for both The Desmond Elliott and the Polari First Book Prize. She lives in Manchester and is currently developing a new musical project, Time-Travelling Suffragettes.•The beguiling third novel from Manchester-based poet, novelist, musician and cabaret chanteuse•Step into Rosie Garland’s rich and playful evocation of nineteenth-century Manchester and meet Edie and her irrepressible brother Gnome•Fans of Middlesex, The Night Watch and Nights at the Circus will love this wildly entertaining and thought-provoking story•Absorbing historical fiction with a twist•Taps into important contemporary discussions around sexual and gender fluidity•Strong appeal for readers with a taste for LGBTQ and feminist fiction, as well as fans of general literary and historical fictionCompetition: The Essex Serpent;Museum of Extraordinary Things;Tony Hill Carol Jordan;Broken Ground;Mermaids Singing;Insidious Intent. Juno Dawson, Alice Hoffman, Sarah Perry, Stella Duffy, Simon & Schuster, Sceptre, Two Roads;Val McDermid
Pubblicato da: HarperCollins Publishers