Summary
An unconventional, will-they-won’t-they love story, that takes us from London to Siberia, and from hope to heartbreak, and back again.
From the prize-winning author of Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma.
Winner of the Prix Femina Etranger.
London, in the frayed heat of summer. Alena is shoplifting shoes when Dave catches her in the act and so begins an unlikely relationship between two people with little in common and everything to l…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099589891 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099589893 |
| Author: | Kerry Hudson |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2015 |
| Weight: | 234g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 21mm |
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Accomplished…Beautiful…Heart-wrenching
Accomplished…Beautiful…Heart-wrenching * Independent on Sunday *
Accomplished…Beautiful…Heart-wrenching * Independent on Sunday *
A fizzing, breathless love story from a terrifically talented storyteller * The List *
A tender, off-kilter love story… the novel paints a vivid picture of two very different kinds of misfit, falling in love over one dusty, teeming London summer * Observer *
Hudson captures the bustle of life in Hackney and Russia with energy and a sharp eye for detail… [Her characters] have love, guts, humour and conscience. This is Love on the Dole 21st-century style – Louise Welsh * Guardian *
Tremendously affecting… impressively unostentatious in its instinct for a common story within a city of millions that never gets heard – Claire Allfree * Metro *
An unusual love story… a refreshing change from the plethora of middle-class novel fare that simply holds a mirror to the majority of readers – John Harding * Daily Mail *
A brilliant, enthralling saga, Thirst presents with such uncommon verisimilitude that scarcely a syllable appears contrived – Joseph Crilly * Irish Times *
Kerry Hudson has consolidated her position with this second novel as a writer who is prepared to face the injustices and the grimness of life, and tell of lives usually ignored… Thirst is hardly an easy summer read… but it is probably an essential one – Lesley McDowell * Scotsman *
A classy will-they won’t-they romance with a difference… Sheer escapism from start to finish * Bella *
About The Author
Kerry Hudson
Kerry Hudson was born in Aberdeen. Her first novel, Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma, won the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust First Book Award and was shortlisted for an array of prizes including the Guardian First Book Award and the Sky Arts Award. Thirst, her second novel, won the prestigious Prix Femina etranger. Lowborn, her highly acclaimed first work of non-fiction, was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, a Guardian and Spectator Book of the Year and Stylist Book of the Decade. It is followed by Newborn. She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020.
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