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‘Savage, witty, gory, heartfelt, utterly relatable rage fantasy and a helluva good time. Miranda July meets Stephen King’ Sunday Times bestseller Lauren BeukesHyper-competent start up CFO Ellie is 46-year old and like most women, is already juggling too much. Daughter’s not talking to her, husband’s not listening to her, and she’s got a promotion coming up at work.
It’s an inconvenient time to be beset by mid-life symptoms: coarse hair in new places, hot flushes, insomnia, losing time, finding bloodstains on all her clothing, howling at the moon. Her doctor diagnoses perimenopause. But it’s another 28-day cycle that’s taking hold.
One involving fur, and teeth, and a not insignificant amount of rage. Suddenly the troubles in her life – hot flushes, thankless family, spiralling to-do list, oblivious husband, the w*nker promoted above her at work – seem almost… bite-size. A deeply gratifying, highly addictive and provocative read, Femme Feral is an exhilarating expression of feminine rage, with a warning: If you swallow your anger, it’s sure to come back with a bite.
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Can you bond with someone who’s on borrowed time? Victor’s mum Jayne is stuck between life and death in a London hospital. Visiting from the Isle of Wight, Victor sofa-surfs at his daughter’s flat, accidentally begins an affair with an attractive doctor and battles his dyslexia to record Jayne’s memoirs. She’s been a top political journalist; he’s a sometime actor and pantomime dame, but she’s mistaking him for his favoured elder brother William, a Tory MP. To add to the confusion, Jayne’s convinced she’s being visited at night by former Labour prime minister Harold Wilson.
Victor and Jayne have a brittle relationship. After many false dawns, he hopes they may bond at last over her rambling and disjointed tales. As the days of her illness blur into weeks, Victor pieces together family secrets that throw new light on his own bittersweet story. At the heart of it all is a feature article, Sons of Great Men, that Jayne wrote in the 1960s to gain a foothold in the male-dominated newsroom of a Fleet Street paper.
Victor’s summer reckoning – with family, mortality, work, love and belonging – may strike a chord with those who know how it feels to reach one of life’s crossroads.
Special features: book group discussion prompts and a bonus short story.
