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Pauline Melville is the author of two short story collections and two novels. Her first novel, The Ventriloquist's Tale won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.

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Book Info

978-1-84659-076-4
Fiction / Sep 2009
Hardback
Demy / 408 pages
£12.99

978-1-84659-081-8
Fiction/BIC: FA / May 2010
Paperback
480 pages
£7.99

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Reviews
'A sharply funny, richly fantastical story, in prose as rich and corrupt as her sensual characters and luxuriant settings... An exhilerating novel that combines myths and modern life with dazzling exuberance.'
Mail on Sunday

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Skynnard's complexion in the pitiless daylight was tallow. His greying hair formed a cobweb of light frizz so pale as to be almost colourless, like a dandelion puff-ball. His forehead, high enough to have been elongated by a distorting mirror, puckered with concentration on nothing in particular.

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