Justine

Alice Thompson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Salt Publishing

Published:15th Apr '15

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Justine cover

A lot of flagellation and a matching literary-exquisite style -- Fay Weldon

Justine is a painting, a doppelgänger and a woman of beguiling beauty. Set in contemporary London, Justine is a story of a man’s obsession with a woman – or is it two women? For Justine has a twin sister Juliette, and as the story unfolds, the opium-dazed narrator becomes increasingly unsure as to the identity of the woman he desires.

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize

Justine is a painting, a doppelgänger and a woman of beguiling beauty. Set in contemporary London, Justine is a story of a man’s obsession with a woman – or is it two women? For Justine has a twin sister Juliette, and as the story unfolds, the opium-dazed narrator becomes increasingly unsure as to the identity of the woman he desires.

A lush, erotic teasing mystery

* The Bookseller *

Angela Carter crossed with the Scottish diffidence of Muriel Spark and Emma Tennant … a faultless performance of a first novel

* The Scotsman *

Beautifully spare, very visual writing … with its own sly, soft sympathetic elegance

* The Observer *

And enthuse we must. This is an extraordinarily accomplished book, sharp, focused, highly intelligent

* The Glasgow Herald *

So skilfully crafted, its atmosphere so ominous, its end so chilling

* The Daily Telegra

  • Winner of The James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1996 (UK)

ISBN: 9781784630317

Dimensions: 203mm x 127mm x 14mm

Weight: unknown

192 pages

3rd Revised edition