Imprint: Vintage
Published: 02/05/2013
ISBN: 9780099566021
Length: 304 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
Weight: 219g
RRP: £8.99
Anita Mostyn feels the need to take a holiday from her life. As a child, she was dismissed by her parents in favour of her more confident brothers, and as an adult, her choices are disapproved of – the small art gallery she works for, the friends she makes, the men she sees. On a whim, she takes up an offer to scout for holiday properties in Bulgaria, escaping the impending second wedding of her perfect brother. But as Anita navigates these difficult waters, a horrifying episode in her past – the thing she has really been trying to escape – comes back to haunt her.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 02/05/2013
ISBN: 9780099566021
Length: 304 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
Weight: 219g
RRP: £8.99
A triumph
So deliciously written that it's worth re-reading to savour the images she conjures up...it's a joy to read
We're lucky to have such an intelligent chronicler of our present - and of the dirty, noisy beauty of contemporary London
Easy to read and oddly compelling...a memorable, and very clever, book
Funny and real as well as impressively sympathetic...this perceptive, engaging little novel says a great deal about human vulnerability, resilience and the passivity that too often goes unnoticed.