Tender Morsels: Library Edition

Lanagan, Margo

ISBN 10: 1423396782 ISBN 13: 9781423396789

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 2009

Synopsis

A young woman who has endured unspeakable cruelties is magically granted a safe haven apart from the real world and allowed to raise her two daughters in this alternate reality, until the barrier between her world and the real one begins to break down.

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Review

"Tender Morsels...is funny, tragic, wise, tender and beautifully written. It also left me gasping with shock...It is with a mixture of respect and delight that I greet any book capable of blasting an entire genre out of the water with its audacity and grace. Tender Morsels is such a book" (Meg Rosoff Guardian)

"A work of genius, with richly inventive language and a brilliantly imagined fairy tale context... the brutal moments are woeven in like dark threads in a rich and complex tapestry" (Dinah Hall Sunday Telegraph)

"A novel that explores the most profound human emotions with a clear gaze; it made me weep like a child at the end" (Observer)

"A striking retelling of the Grimms' Snow White and Rose Red, told in a rich yet remote prose style, it is, like Lanagan's award-winning collection of short stories, Red Spikes, likely to appeal to teenage girls with a taste for the original and the sinister" (Amanda Craig The Times)

"It's a rewardingly complex and emotional story told in highly imaginative prose. The worlds Lanagan creates are so rich and multi-layered it's easy to get lost in the book's 500 pages, never wanting to leave" (Scotsman)

Book Description

An astonishing adult re-working of a classic fairy tale, brilliantly reviewed and perfect for fans of Angela Carter and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1423396782
• ISBN 13: 9781423396789
• Binding: Audio CD