Bareback (Signed and Dated)

Whitfield,Kit

ISBN 10: 022407864X / ISBN 13: 9780224078641

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 2006

About this Item

This is a Fine Copy of this Book in a Fine Dust-Jacket.Lovely copy of this Horror novel with no faults and has not been read so (As New) Signed and dated by Kit Whitfield.We have recently acquired a large and wonderful collection of approx 1000 Signed Modern Firsts,all in 'As New' Condition and unread,with many Signed and Dated and there are many Signed Limited Editions also.They include Crime Fiction,Fantasy,Science Fiction,Horror and Historical Fiction.This is a superb copy for the collector with crisp white page edges,8vo First Edition 1st Impression [2006].

Seller Inventory # 85735

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bareback (Signed and Dated)
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 022407864X
• ISBN 13: 9780224078641
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Modern First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

Biology is destiny.

For those born feet-first, life is normal. Civil rights are enshrined in law, the world is a comfortable place, and every full moon night, you lock yourself in a secure room to fur up in peace. But for those born head-first, the damage done is more than just physical. For a non, locked in his or her human skin, is first and foremost a conscript, drafted at eighteen into DORLA, the Department for the Ongoing Regulation of Lycanthropic Activity.

For a DORLA agent, insultingly referred to as a 'bareback', full moon creates a battle zone, where they patrol the silent night in search of citizens breaking the curfew. The rest of the month is a civil service nightmare, mopping up the after-effects of the trespasses, the fights and the maulings. DORLA has lasted centuries, since the Inquisition first set it up, and it's no less hated now than it was then.

Lola Galley, twenty-eight and already a scarred veteran, is assigned to defend a curfew-breaker who mutilated a good friend of hers. She doesn't want the case, but she's used to doing things she doesn't want. Only something happens: her maimed friend is murdered before her client can be tried.

Lola wants justice. She'll settle for the truth. But in a divided world, asking for the truth may bring answers that you don't want to hear.

Kit Whitfield has created a world that is wholly, unnervingly convincing. This work shows her to be a novelist of rare gifts and astonishing imagination.

About the Author

Kit Whitfield is a graduate of Christ's College, Cambridge and completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her first novel, Bareback (published in the US as Benighted) was shortlisted for the Authors Club Best First Novel Award, and longlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award. Her second novel is In Great Waters. She lives in London.