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Cara Massimina

Cara Massimina

Bored and broke, Morris Duckworth, an English teacher in Verona, stumbles on a plan for financial salvation – to marry Massimina, one of his lovelier students.

And if his intentions are frustrated by a suspicious, conservative family, is it any fault of his that the girl chooses to elope?

Obsessed by self-advancement and excitement, Morris’s dreams of blackmail, theft and murder plunge him deep into a chilling nightmare of deception and violence.

Reviews

  • "A triumph"

    Daily Telegraph

  • "Sharp and witty, expertly paced, frequently horrific and often very funny"

    Times Literary Supplement

  • "An unusually classy thriller, true to life and not to be missed"

    Independent

  • "Entertaining black humour"

    Independent on Sunday

  • "Tim Parks presents the real, virginal, boastful, cracked Morris lurking behind his own justifications as matters turn lethal and ugly. Clever, blandly humorous and utterly immoral"

    Sunday Times

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About the Author

Tim Parks

Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. He lives in Milan. He is the acclaimed author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa, In Extremis, A Season with Verona, Teach Us to Sit Still and Italian Ways. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Betty Trask Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the John Florio Prize and the Italo Calvino Prize.

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