
In Search of the Missing Eyelash
Karen Mcleod(Author)
Muswell Press
Published on 6. June 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
194 pages
978-1-7394716-8-2 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 2008 by Vintage this Betty Trask Award winning novel; a humorous LGBTQI+ coming of age story, is available for the first time in 17 years. Lizzie is lonely. Her parents have gone and her brother, who believes he is a woman, is missing. Most of all, though, Lizzie misses Sally, her former lover, who has gone off with a man with a fat neck. She starts to stalk Sally, collecting bathroom fluff, dust and pubes from Sally's bed - all the things that prove that somewhere life is taking place without her.
Reviews / Votes
'TREMENDOUS! Such a mix of hilarious and poetic and delicate and tough ... WONDERFUL'. Ali Smith. 'A marvellous debut: QUIRKY, HONEST,FUNNY and SAD. I LOVED IT'. Sarah Walters. 'Combines sitcom-style farce with movingly understated heartache'. Guardian. Both comic and moving as it explores ideas of self, of gender, identification and loneliness'. ObserverMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
182 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7394716-8-2 (9781739471682)
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Additional editions

Karen Mcleod
In Search of the Missing Eyelash
E-Book
06/2024
Muswell Press
€13.19
Available for download
Previous edition

Karen Mcleod
In Search of the Missing Eyelash
Book
06/2008
Vintage
€36.08
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Person
Karen McLeod is a writer, performance artist and creative writing teacher. She is writer in residence at Bookseller Crow on the Hill. She is also a visiting lecturer in creative writing at UCAS. She performs comedy as Barbara Brownskirt, a Judi Dench mega-fan and poet-in-residence at the 197 bus stop on the Croydon Road in south-east London.