Tender Morsels
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK
Published:1st Jul '10
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A dark and vivid novel from an author acclaimed for the fearless range of her imagination, the emotional intensity of her stories and the virtuosity of her writing.
Liga endures unspeakable cruelties at the hands of her father, before being magically granted her own personal heaven, a safe haven from the real world. But the real world cannot be denied forever . Now, having known Heaven, how will these three women survive in a world where beauty and brutality lie side by side?
Liga endures unspeakable cruelties at the hands of her father, before being magically granted her own personal heaven, a safe haven from the real world. She raises her two daughters in this alternate reality, and they grow up protected from the violence that once harmed their mother. But the real world cannot be denied forever . . .
Magicked men and wild bears break down the borders of Liga's refuge. Now, having known Heaven, how will these three women survive in a world where beauty and brutality lie side by side?
Funny, tragic, wise, tender and beautifully written. It also left me gasping with shock . . . It is with a mixture of respect and delight that I greet any book capable of blasting an entire genre out of the water with its audacity and grace. Tender Morsels is such a book -- Meg Rosoff * Guardian *
A striking retelling of the Grimms' Snow WhiteandRose Red, told in a rich yet remote prose style, it is, like Lanagan's awardwinning collection of short stories, Red Spikes, likely to appeal to teenage girls with a taste for the original and the sinister -- Amanda Craig * The Times *
A work of genius -- Dinah Hall * Sunday Telegraph *
It's a rewardingly complex and emotional story told in highly imaginative prose. The worlds Lanagan creates are so rich and multi-layered it's easy to get lost in the book's 500 pages, never wanting to leave * Scotsman *
Ambitious and difficult with multi-layered prose that will work its way into your very soul -- Jill Murphy * The Bookbag *
A genre-smashing novel -- Meg Rosoff * The Telegraph *
It grips the reader from the outset, and as it is read, layer upon layer of psychological and intertextual meaning can be unpicked and analyzed. It is certainly an immensely powerful contribution to both fairy-tale and fantasy genres -- Bridget Carrington * Armadillo *
Brave and bold * South Wales Evening Post *
This is an astonishing and beautifully written novel with very strong cross-over appeal * The Bookseller *
To condemn it as merely wilful taboo-breaking is to miss the humanity in what is one of the strangest and most moving works of children's literature I have read in years . . . Look beyond the shocking scenes and this is a novel that explores the most profound human emotions with a clear gaze; it made me weep like a child at the end -- Stephanie Marritt * Observer *
ISBN: 9781849920070
Dimensions: 196mm x 129mm x 28mm
Weight: 341g
496 pages