The Electric
$31.89
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
13 October 2020
Summary
‘A writer of great energy and fearsome powers of observation’ Hilary Mantel, TLS
Brighton, 1950s. When Daisy got married, she knew nothing of a police wife’s struggles - the way secrecy and suspicion seep into the home. But over the years she finds ways to resist. She builds a fierce bond with her children, Linda and Michael, and escapes to the twilit world of the cinema.
By 1998 Linda and Michael are still struggling to cope after their mother’s death, a decade before.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473669550 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473669553 |
| Author: | Edward Hogan |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2020 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 140mm x 218mm |
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Critics Review
Praise for Edward Hogan - .
Powerful and original … An impressive work, grimly bawdy, tense and moving - Sunday TimesNo first novel I’ve read this year stays with me like Blackmoor by Edward Hogan … Hogan knows the terrain and the people, is wise beyond his years … and is a writer of great energy and fearsome powers of observation … Engaged, ambitious and deeply felt - all the things a first novel should be. He is a writer of huge promise - Hilary Mantel, TLSThere’s a subtle magic to Hogan’s prose, and a passionate concern for the part of the world where this novel is based, which invites comparison with D. H. Lawrence … [This novel] has confidence, mystery and an entrancing sense of itself - Independent on SundayA debut novel of ambitious substance and style … writing which is charged with a bite and passion harking back to his Northern forebears: D. H. Lawrence, most obviously, with a passing touch, perhaps, of Charlotte Bronte. His figurative language is neatly imaginative … Hogan is clearly a writer to watch - IndependentEdward Hogan
Edward Hogan was born in Derby in 1980 and now lives in Brighton. He is a graduate of the MA creative writing course at UEA and a recipient of the David Higham Award. His first novel, Blackmoor, won the Desmond Elliott Prize and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize. His second, The Hunger Trace, was shortlisted for the Encore Award. The Electric is his third.
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