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Andy dreams of leopards. When he has unprotected sex with a man tattooed from head to foot with animals, he believes he may be pregnant. Penny is seeing a club-footed body-builder and her mother is in a coma in hospital. Andy then runs away to Edinburgh to give birth to Jep, his leopard child.
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The ordinary inhabitants of a small-town council estate turn out to hold extraordinary secrets in Paul Magrs' strangely compelling novel, Could It Be Magic?. Set in the grey wastelands of the north-east, Magrs has looked beyond the ravages of boom and bust Britain--with its council ghettos and widespread unemployment--to reveal a community brimming with passions. At first glance, the leading characters are exceptional only in their mediocrity: Elsie, old before her time, weighed down by a crippled son and depressive husband, whose only solace lies in a bottle of gin; tattooed Mark, who spends his days bodybuilding and nights babysitting his ex-wife's new baby; Penny, who left school too soon and fills her house with students; Andy whose gay lover left him for a better life. But the arrival of Penny's Mam on New Year's Eve (with her own startling secret) sets off a chain of astonishing events. Fantasy mingles with the mundane until it's hard to know what to accept as commonplace and what to dismiss as trivial. A frisson of sexual energy sparks from council roof to satellite dish as Magrs' characters discover their innermost secrets and how to live life to the full. --Carey Green
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Paul Magrs was born in 1969 and comes from Aycliffe in County Durham. He is the author of two highly acclaimed novels, Marked For Life and Does It Show?, and a collection of short stories, Playing Out.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0701166940
- ISBN 13 9780701166946
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages328
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