Janet Ellis

Broschiertes Buch

The Butcher's Hook

a dark and twisted tale of Georgian London

Beschreibung

The debut novel by actress and presenter Janet Ellis, The Butcher's Hook is the dark and twisted tale of a young girl in 18th-century London determined to take her life in her own hands. No matter the cost.

Autor

Actress, presenter and author Janet Ellis trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Best known for presenting Blue Peter, she stars in numerous radio and TV programmes and in 2018 appeared at the Edinburgh Festival. In 2016 Janet was awarded an MBE for services to charities and theatre. A graduate of the Curtis Brown creative writing course, her debut novel, The Butcher's Hook, was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. janetellis.com twitter.com/missjanetellis instagram.com/missjanetellis

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 252g
• ISBN-13: 9781473625150
• ISBN-10: 1473625157
• Artikelnr.: 44511914

Rezensionen

Janet Ellis's appealing debut novel is like a cross between Fanny Burney's Evelina and US crime drama Dexter... Ellis excels at the poetics of flesh. She writes with a keen eye for the texture of skin and the meat beneath. She vividly describes the slaughter of a calf, the wet thwack of the knife, the cleaving of muscle from bone, the hot rush of blood. Anne, we come to realise, is something of a sociopath. This is where The Butcher's Hook gets really interesting ... There's a wit and a richness to the writing, a nice way with pastiche, and a real feel for the macabre. And, in Anne, she has created an engaging and at times daringly amoral heroine. Observer (Paperback of the Week)