Charity

Charity
Madeline Dewhurst
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 304pg
26 Apr 2021 UK
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9781785632303
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Edith, an elderly widow with a large house in an Islington garden square, needs a carer. Lauren, a nail technician born in the East End, needs somewhere to live. A rent-free room in lieu of pay seems the obvious solution, even though the pair have nothing in common. Or do they? Why is Lauren so fascinated by Edith' s childhood in colonial Kenya? Is Paul, the handsome lodger in the basement, the honest broker he appears? And how does Charity, a Kenyan girl brutally tortured during the Mau Mau rebellion, fit into the equation? Capturing the spirited interplay between two women divided by class, generation and a deeper gulf from the past, and offering vivid flashbacks to 1950s East Africa, Madeline Dewhurst' s captivating debut spins a web of secrets and deceit - where it' s not always obvious who is the spider and who is the fly.
' In Charity, Dewhurst examines patterns of guilt, recognition, shame and agency. A taut, fraught, stylish and important novel about notions of the culpable and the complicit, drawing upon the facts and fictions of an oft-neglected moment in history' - Eley Williams, ' By turns humorous and heart-wrenching, impeccably researched and beautifully written throughout, this is a haunting and original debut that demands to be read' - Lianne Dillsworth, ' Dazzling. . . brilliantly merges the past and present and keeps you guessing till the end' - Emily Bullock, ' Assured and impressive, it' s hard to believe Charity is a first novel' - Tony Saint, ' An accomplished story teller, Dewhurst takes the reader on a suspenseful journey exposing dark family secrets. A brilliant debut that shines a light on our colonial past and its haunting effect on the present' - Julia Barrett
Madeline Dewhurst is an academic in English and Creative Writing at the Open University. Her previous writing includes fiction, journalism and drama. Charity, which was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award, is her first novel.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781785632303
Published: 26 Apr 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Lightning Books
Publisher: Eye Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 304

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