Published by Black Swan, part of Transworld Publishers
Format: Paperback
£9.99
Author:
Anne Fine
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780552777643
£9.99
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EAN: 9780552777643
Published: 28 Feb 2011
Nobody, not even his former wife Margaret, has ever treated Ian Laidlaw in a natural way. Presented with his hideous facial scars, everyone he meets reliably falls back on cast-iron, distant courtesy to hide pity or disgust or shock. But then Alicia Davie, a careless young student, breaks the rules totally by laughing in his face. Alicia goes on to infiltrate the hidden man, exposing the obsessive, destructive passions that lurk beneath his primly cordial manner, never realizing that she is playing with fire...
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'A novel with an adder in the prose...observant and impressive'
Sunday Times
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'More discriminating and convincing than John Fowles's first novel, The Collector...Haunting' The Times
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'A wonderful and original piece of work - impeccable from beginning to end...a horror story which rings abolutely true'
ALAN SILLITOE
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'Powerfully done...reveals an accomplished and ambitious writer'
Scotsman
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'Definitely not one for the faint-hearted. It's compellingly written, sinister...and very, very fine'
Woman's World
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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.
