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Love Me Tender

Jane Feaver author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:6th May '10

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'Ribald, exuberant and sophisticated... A complete joy' - Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph.

There is more going on in the village of Buckleigh than meets the eye and its sense of community is often as much a curse as a blessing. While Barrie, the local mayor, is driven into the arms of tough single mother Debbie, his father lusts after a former chorus girl whose breath now smells of 'cabbage and chocolates'.

There is more going on in the village of Buckleigh than meets the eye and its sense of community is often as much a curse as a blessing. While Barrie, the local mayor, is driven into the arms of tough single mother Debbie, his father lusts after a former chorus girl whose breath now smells of 'cabbage and chocolates'. Meanwhile, a farmer's wife is driven to murder by her unfaithful husband, a carnival queen faces an uncertain future and the postman is in danger of realising his sexual fantasies.

Playing on in the background of each of these wry, interlinked tales is the village silver band, swilling cider and keeping a sharp eye out for any misbehaviour.

These lives are captured in surprising, sometimes shocking ways. The timelessness of Jane Feaver's fiction conceals a quality of enchanting newness. This is a unique voice -- Philip Hensher * Daily Telegraph *
She has a wonderful way of teasing out the comedy of people struggling to deal with what the poet Frances Cornford called 'the long littleness of life' -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
Jane Feaver has proved an expert at creating a sense of place ... tender, imaginative prose -- Vicky Allen * Sunday Herald *
The neatness and power of Feaver's writing is a spartan pleasure: when shafts of poetical insight or tenderness break through its restraint they are genuinely luminous and moving * Guardian *
Confirms her considerable talents * The Independent *

  • Short-listed for Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story 2010

ISBN: 9780099521280

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm

Weight: 171g

240 pages