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Synopsis
Picture this, says Lizzie. The door is open and my father, that's my real father, Jack is standing there at the end of the bathroom, silent as a ghost, watching my mother and me through the steam. He drops his arms by his side, as though gravity has got the better of him. This is more than I deserve, he says, and leaves. Forever.'
Quite unlike her fair stepsisters, Lizzie is dark and secretive: 'Just like your father' says her mother. But what was her father like? Photos of him are hidden away; snatches of overheard conversation between her mother and her stepfather deepen the mystery. Only her best friend Savannah - also abandoned by her father when she was a baby - knows what it feels like to wonder, to try and piece together an earlier story. But when events propel Lizzie alone to London she stops wondering and starts searching...
Beautifully evoking the ache of childhood loss, the scrappy joys of chaotic families, and the hurt and relief of understanding, Picture This reveals Polly Samson's talent for laying bare the uncomfortable truths that lie just under the skin - in every family, in every secret.
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With OUT OF THE PICTURE, Samson has earned herself a place on people's shelves next to Rafaella Barker, Esther Freud and Barbara Trapido. Between them, they have the market in complex, bohemian families cornered and pinned down (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY.)
Talent and a writing style that feels as natural as air (THE TIMES)
She pinpoints the telling detail in character or landscape and brings her prose to life with evocative scents and colours (DAILY TELEGRAPH)
A fine debut novel. (ESQUIRE)
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Excellent reviews for Polly Samson's Out of the Picture...
'Samson reprises the fractured family themes from her first collection, with deeper sympathy and insight. A fine debut novel' - Esquire
'...she has talent and a writing style that feels as natural as air' - The Times
'(Samson) pinpoints the telling detail in character or landscape and brings her prose to life with evocative scents and colours' - The Daily Telegraph
'Last year I tipped Polly Samson's engaging collection of short stories, 'Lying in Bed' as the debut of the year. Her first novel, Out of the Picture, is a worthy successor.' - Tatler
'A crisp, unsentimentally poignant stare into the heart of abandonment and loneliness' - The Daily Mail
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- PublisherVirago
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1860498299
- ISBN 13 9781860498299
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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