The Final Hours of Muriel Hinchcliffe
A Delicious Novel of a Friendship Gone Sour, Jealousy and the Ultimate Revenge . . .
$57.38
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2024
Summary
“It’s dark and twisted, comic and toxic. I loved it!” - Jenny Colgan, author of The Summer Skies
Muriel, a former bestselling romantic novelist, and Ruth, a journalist, are best friends. Inseparable since they were little, they’ve shared everything; unable to be without each other, even after the most vicious of fights.
Now fate has left them living together in a North London home, with Ruth caring for Muriel in her deteriorating health, playing Scrabble, arguing and making up…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035028450 |
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| ISBN-10: | 103502845X |
| Author: | Claire Parkin |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 520g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 160mm x 240mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
It’s dark and twisted, comic and toxic. I loved it! – Jenny Colgan, author of The Summer Skies
THE FINAL HOURS OF MURIEL HINCHCLIFFE M.B.E by Claire Parkin has serious vibes of ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane’ and you KNOW that’s going to be a winner. A twisty tale of toxic friendships and even some sneaky sedatives added to Heinz tomato soup. * Julie Cohen *
The characterisation is spot-on and the deeper we get into this beautifully drawn portrait of their intensely complicated, often horrific ‘friendship’, the more shocking and compelling the narrative is … Fabulous. * Daily Mail *
I couldn’t get enough of this beautifully written, dark, twisted and often funny novel about a toxic friendship. It’s quirky and different in the best possible way and I loved it! – Charlotte Levin
Claire Parkin
Claire was born and brought up in a village just outside Cardiff and graduated from King’s College London with an MA in nineteenth-century English and American Literature. She worked as a journalist on women’s general-interest magazines for many years, writing for Essentials, Woman & Home and Candis, where she was known for being able to turn her hand to pretty much anything - from interviewing boxing champs and war correspondents to learning how to pole dance and the correct way to iron a shirt. Other career highlights include taste-testing eight varieties of mince pie during an August heatwave, begging Victoria Beckham to donate a dress to a charity raffle and visiting six second-hand car dealerships in one afternoon, in a bid to expose sexism in the motoring industry.
She turned to fiction after the birth of her twin son and daughter. Three of her short stories have been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and one was runner-up in the Fiction Desk Newcomer of the Year Award (2016). She is currently working on her second novel, Tell Tale, about a troubled ten-year-old girl who manipulates rising community tensions for her own amusement.
Claire lives in London with her husband and children. When she’s not writing, she’s a passionate parkrunner, container-gardener and baker of calorific goods. After a break of several years, she’s finally enjoying mince pies again.
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