Sugar Money - Softcover

Harris Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571336930 ISBN 13: 9780571336937

Publisher: Faber Fiction, 2017

Synopsis

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About this title

About the Author

Jane Harris was born in Belfast and brought up in Glasgow. Her debut novel, The Observations, was shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, and she was also shortlisted for the British Book Awards Waterstone's Newcomer of the Year and the South Bank Show/Times Breakthrough Award. It was followed in 2011 by the highly acclaimed Gillespie & I, and that same year The Observations was chosen by Richard and Judy as one of their 100 Books of the Decade.

Review

"A vivid, perfectly paced tale of slavery and freedom, innocence and experience, love and despair, Sugar Money is told in an unforgettably beautiful language. What a stunning writer Jane Harris is, mastering an extremely harrowing and complex subject and making it into art."-- Amanda Craig, author of In a Dark Wood

"Harris builds a lush sense of place, and the pace and tension of a rip-roaring adventure here, with derring-do and double-crossing and a looming sense of threat and dread from the start... But what is most striking is the irrepressible voice of Lucien ― whose highly original multilingual turns of phrase bring a spark and tingle to the telling of his tale ― and the fractious but profound relationship he has with the desperate, damaged Emile." --The Times (London)

"It is Lucien's voice, bright and upbeat, in an enchanting mix of English, French and Creole, which really makes the novel. His language is deliciously descriptive: 'Naught but a slice of corossol had passed my lips that morning and my belly was biting me' is just one example of the lyrical quality which infuses the novel."-- Scotland on Sunday

"A gripping tale of colonial cruelty set in the Western Antilles in the late 18th century. Enthrallingly narrated by Lucien, a teenage slave... This is a novel that celebrates the incredible capacity of humans to pursue lives filled with love and courage in the face of overwhelming cruelty. Harris’ novel may be set some 250 years ago, but it has a key relevance to the modern slavery that still blights our world." --The National (Scotland)

"The Observations is a deliriously captivating tale of sex, ghosts, lies, and mysteries. But that’s not the good part; the good part is our narrator Betsy, a fifteen-year-old Irish made living in Scotland with the freshest, sharpest, naughtiest, and most charming voice you’re apt to encounter in literature in a good long time. I adored her and couldn’t put her story down." – Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

"I wept at the end of this brilliant first novel because I was so moved at the way Jane Harris sustains the vivacity, eloquence and pathos of her tale." – Sunday Herald (Glasgow)

"Harris is already being spoken about in the same breath as Sarah Waters and Michel Faber. In Betsy, she has created a bawdy, picaresque character who holds our attention for more than 400 pages. The Observations combines the best qualities of literary fiction with page-turning accessibility." – The Observer (London)

"Harris's voice is an original one, and her rollicking yet delicate narrative pitch sets the book apart... This is a true one-off." (Joanna Briscoe Guardian)
For Gillespie and I:
"Harris has pulled off that only too rare double whammy - a Booker-worthy novel that I want to read again."-- Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times
"Gripping ... the pace of the narrative is tantalisingly controlled." --Times Literary Supplement
"Evocative ... will you plunge you straight back into 19th-century Glasgow ... it's perfect for a long winter evening." -- Erica Wagner, Books of the Year, The Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber Fiction
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0571336930
• ISBN 13: 9780571336937
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400