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Big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving' - Guardian Telling the stories of the wealthy Winshaw family, WHAT A CARVE UP! is a riveting social satire on the chattering and all-powerful upper classes.
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Big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving (Guardian)
Probably the best English novelist of his generation (Nick Hornby)
Everything a novel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad - and peopled with a fine troupe of characters (The Times)
A sustained feat of humour, suspense and polemic, full of twists and ironies (Hilary Mantel Sunday Times)
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Michael is a lonely writer, obsessed by a film featuring a mad knifeman. When he is commissioned to write the family history of the Winshaws he realizes that the family have cast a blight on his life and he decides to take his revenge by re-enacting his favourite film.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0140234217
- ISBN 13 9780140234213
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages512
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