Reader, I Married Him - Hardcover

Michele-roberts

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316727504 ISBN 13: 9780316727501

Publisher: Time Warner Books Uk, 2005

Synopsis

Who is Aurora? Every time she becomes a new Mrs (three times when last we counted) she becomes a new woman: art collector with the first; hippy with the second; deli owner with the last. Sad that they all died. Widowed three times...When Aurora decides to take herself off to Italy to visit her old friend, Nun Leonora, after her last husband's demise, she finds herself plunged into intrigues at the convent; and very odd goings on at the art gallery. Combined with her own dangerous lust for sex and food, this could well be the scenario that reveals the real Aurora - even to herself.

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About the Author

Half-English/half-French, Michele Roberts was born in 1949. DAUGHTERS OF THE HOUSE (1992) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the W.H. Smith Literary Award. She has just been appointed Professor of Creative Writing at UEA.

Review

'A triumphant tour de force' Time Out 'Michele Roberts is on sparkling form with her ludic 11th novel. Roberts has constructed a fantastical Italian city, a capriccio of the sort beloved of Italian artists of the Renaissance, and makes the setting half realistic - imbued with the smells, noises, clothes, food of Roberts' characteristically rich sensual descriptions - and half magical. . . A story that is nimble on its feet, and plays cleverly with form and expectations, cliche and counter-cliche. It also shows how emotional truths can be delivered in all sorts of packages' Financial Times 'With her sudden offbeat collisions between reality and fantasy, Robert's sensibility is reminiscent of Jeanette Winterson's, though undeniable shades of Muriel Spark prevail, of the writer fully in control of her measured, ironic tone, however much her novel froths and sparkles . . . This is Shirley Valentine meets Room with a View: an eccentric and enjoyable romp to take to Italy and savour' Guardian 'Conundrums and their answers bombard the reader like a shower of carnival confetti in a novel whose characters resemble the cast of a modern-day commedia dell'arte. The real pleasure of Roberts's writing lies. . . in the unfailing sensuality of her description of the physical world: food, flowers, buildings, clothes, sex, all portrayed in the tender, jewelled colours of a Florentine fresco' The Times 'Chiselled phrasing and dancing plot. . . A sizzling firework display of a book' Sunday Times 'A deliciously black and breezy affair, the perfect antidote to dull winter days. The scenario is that of a standard romance. . . but don't be deceived: Michele Roberts has written something altogether darker and wittier. After reading this book, Jane Eyre's famous words will never sound the same again' Mail 'Reader, I married him is an unashamed fairytale for those who think they are too fat or too old for the good things in life . . . The perfect accompaniment to an espresso and some almond cake' Telegraph 'A shrewd and pithy fable about the quest for self-knowledge' You 'Hot literary sex anyone?' Sunday Times 'Roberts is wonderfully funny about the catholic church. . . A story that is nimble on its feet, and plays cleverly with form and expectations, cliche and counter cliche' FT Magazine 'slick and clever, full of rich, sensual writing' TLS 'Reader, I married him is an ingenious divertissement, like those pretty antique snuff boxes which suddenly spring open revealing secret compartments' Sunday Herald 'Reader, I married him is an ingenious divertissement, like those pretty antique snuff boxes which suddenly spring open revealing secret compartments' Sunday Herald '[Michele Roberts'] beguiling new novel' Mirror 'Witty and provocative, sharp and insightful, this is Roberts at her best' Sainsbury's Magazine 'Quaint, but saucy' Mirror

About this edition

• Publisher: Time Warner Books Uk
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0316727504
• ISBN 13: 9780316727501
• Binding: Hardcover