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  • "[S]ections of the book pulse with sexual energy…Maguire keeps the prose crackling and the dialogue lively from the first page to the last." Publishers Weekly

  • "Obsession, delusion, abandonment and perversion are never easy to portray, but Emily Maguire has managed to wrestle the beast to the ground and, if she has not tamed it, then she has given us some insights into both its beauty and its terror." Kathleen Mitchell Award 2006 Commendation

  • "The swift narrative carries us without pit stops for frills or flowers; the acute prose is piercing and direct." KGB Bar Lit

  • "...powerful and compelling..." Kirkus Reviews
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Kathleen Mitchell Award 2006

Kathleen Mitchell Award 2006 - Special Commendation

Judges Comments:

A powerful novel about desire, love and lust. Often confronting and uncomfortable to read, this novel is a kind of grunge mix of Nabokov’s Lolita, the erotic mayhem of the Marquis de Sade’s narratives and the self-destructive passion of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Obsession, delusion, abandonment and perversion are never easy to portray, but Emily Maguire has managed to wrestle the beast to the ground and, if she has not tamed it, then she has given us some insights into both its beauty and its terror.