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In Search of the Missing Eyelash

Karen McLeod author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Muswell Press

Published:6th Jun '24

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In Search of the Missing Eyelash is a novel about home and love and what can become undone when we try to make it all better. It's also about gender and sex and it flips from heart-breaking to hilarious within the stoke of an eyelash.First published in 2008 by Vintage this Betty Trask Award winning novel; a humorous LGBTQI+ coming of age story, is available for the first time in 17 years. Lizzie is lonely. Her parents have gone and her brother, who believes he is a woman, is missing. Most of all, though, Lizzie misses Sally, her former lover, who has gone off with a man with a fat neck. She starts to stalk Sally, collecting bathroom fluff, dust and pubes from Sally's bed - all the things that prove that somewhere life is taking place without her.

'TREMENDOUS! Such a mix of hilarious and poetic and delicate and tough ... WONDERFUL'. Ali Smith. 'A marvellous debut: QUIRKY, HONEST,FUNNY and SAD. I LOVED IT'. Sarah Walters. 'Combines sitcom-style farce with movingly understated heartache'. Guardian. Both comic and moving as it explores ideas of self, of gender, identification and loneliness'. Observer

  • Winner of Betty Trask Award 2009

ISBN: 9781739471682

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194 pages