Digging to Australia
Published on 14. August 2013
214 pages
978-1-4719-1297-9 (ISBN)
Description
She always felt different - and now she knows why.
'An outstanding novel which confirms Glaister's command of the domestic and the bizarre' Independent on Sunday
'Enormously enjoyable' Nick Hornby
Jennifer is about to turn thirteen and is suffering more than the usual teenage confusion. She's lonely and her parents are unfashionably strange, so she lives in her imagination, dreaming of acceptance, to be popular and normal.
Then Jennifer learns that her supposed parents are really her grandparents, and that her mother deserted her years ago. So when Bronwyn, the new girl at school, and the sinister Johnny crash into her life, adventures with them - no matter how dangerous - seem immediately more attractive.
'Glaister's rounded gift is to show life as it really is' Independent on Sunday
'An outstanding novel which confirms Glaister's command of the domestic and the bizarre' Independent on Sunday
'Enormously enjoyable' Nick Hornby
Jennifer is about to turn thirteen and is suffering more than the usual teenage confusion. She's lonely and her parents are unfashionably strange, so she lives in her imagination, dreaming of acceptance, to be popular and normal.
Then Jennifer learns that her supposed parents are really her grandparents, and that her mother deserted her years ago. So when Bronwyn, the new girl at school, and the sinister Johnny crash into her life, adventures with them - no matter how dangerous - seem immediately more attractive.
'Glaister's rounded gift is to show life as it really is' Independent on Sunday
Reviews / Votes
An outstanding novel with confirms Glaister's command of the domestic and the bizarre * INDEPENDENT * Glaister's novels always appear to be as effortless for her to writer as they are for us to read. ' The Times 'Not just dark and mysterious but also emotionally satisfying * TLS * A gothic tale of horror and neglect . . . Glaister is very good at creating an atmosphere of rank gloom, and her alternating structure gives her rich opportunities for dramatic tension, which she exploits brilliantly -- Jane Houseman * GUARDIAN on LITTLE EGYPT * Before Gillian Flynn, there was Lesley Glaister . . . LITTLE EGYPT perfectly demonstrates why Glaister is the suspense writers' suspense writer. With LITTLE EGYPT, she is back on HONOUR THY FATHER form. I still have that slow, sick, ache in the pit of my stomach to prove it -- Sam Baker * HARPER'S BAZAAR on LITTLE EGYPT *More details
Series
Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Edition type
Digital original
File size
0,53 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4719-1297-9 (9781471912979)
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Person
Novelist Lesley Glaister was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England. She grew up in Suffolk, moving to Sheffield with her first husband, where she took a degree with the Open University. She was 'discovered' by the novelist Hilary Mantel when she attended a course given by the Arvon Foundation in 1989. Mantel was so impressed by her writing that she recommended her to a literary agent. Lesley Glaister's first novel, Honour Thy Father, won both a Somerset Maugham Award and a Betty Trask Award. Her other novels include Trick or Treat, Limestone and Clay, for which she was awarded the Yorkshire Post Book Award (Yorkshire Author of the Year), Partial Eclipse and Now You See Me, the story of the unlikely relationship between Lamb, a former patient in a psychiatric ward, and Doggo, a fugitive on the run from the police. Her latest novel is Chosen (2010). Lesley Glaister lives with her husband between Sheffield and Orkney. She has three sons and teaches Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Lesley was a winner of the 2014 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize for Little Egypt.
