Published by Black Swan, part of Transworld Publishers
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Author:
Anne Fine
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780552772853
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EAN: 9780552772853
Published: 5 Jun 2006
Lovers, colleagues, family - Tilly has always been brilliant at pushing people in and out of her life exactly as it suits her. Then along comes Geoffrey, gentle, compassionate, generous to a fault, with his miserable little children and his manipulative ex-wife.
Tilly's own expertise in the arts of deception and avoidance should be enough to make sure she's always one step ahead of Geoffrey's disastrous, crumbling family. But time and again she finds herself staying, brought down by their cowardly backsliding and their barefaced lies.
How has she managed to stay so long in a relationship she knows perfectly well has to be doomed? More importantly, how can Tilly plan her permanent escape?
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'So savage and sharp in its insights that it cuts, this is a brilliantly compulsive, forensic dissection of a relationship built on ironies and evasions'
- The Times
'A fearless novelist . . . also a constantly amusing writer. The result is an unsettling, sometimes angry but always engrossing story'
- Independent
'Deftly plotted'
- Daily Mail
'A very admirable and compelling novel'
- Daily Mirror
'[A] remarkable novel...there is something terrifyingly recognisable in each of the characters that will have readers looking deep inside their souls'
- The Observer
'Written with humour and barbed wit'
- Good Housekeeping
'Admirably acute observations of the trivialities of domestic life'
- The Mail on Sunday
'Displays her familiar cool, unfussy style'
- Guardian
'Searing black comedy...a clear-eyed and fearless look at the role of honesty within relationships'
- Irish Examiner
'Family relationships are rarely analysed with the depth of black humour that Anne Fine can bring to bear'
- Yorkshire Evening Post
'A scandalously good read'
- The Scotsman
Brilliant
- Closer
An enjoyably black and bracingly unsentimental novel
- The Times
Brilliant black comedy
- Woman&Home
Raking the Ashes is Anne Fine's sixth novel for adults. Her first was the critically acclaimed The Killjoy. Taking the Devil's Advice and Telling Liddy have both been adapted for the radio. She is also a distinguished writer for young people, and has won the Carnegie Medal twice, the Whitbread Children's Award twice, the Guardian Children's Literature Award and a Smarties Prize. An adaptation of her novel Goggle-Eyes has been shown by the BBC, and Twentieth-Century Fox filmed her novel Madame Doubtfire as Mrs Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams. Her books have been translated into twenty-six languages. Between 2001 and 2003 she was the second Children's Laureate. Anne Fine has two grown-up daughters and lives in County Durham.
