by May (Author)
Do you know what your neighbours get up to behind closed doors? And more to the point, do you want to know? `The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia is a darkly comic portrayal of marriage, relationships, neighbours and suburbia.
Welcome to Littlehaven, where serving pineapple with cottage cheese at a dinner party is the very height of glamorous sophistication; where sulky teenagers join CND and obsess as much about the threat of nuclear war as they do about their latest acne outbreak; and where missing a Green Goddess-led aerobics session is the true definition of disaster. `The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia' follows the intertwined stories of the inhabitants of Pollards Close in love and out of love, in marriage and in flagrante, in health and in sickness, in work and out of work, in triumph and in tragedy.
`The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia' is a black-hearted soap opera, a smart, sharp study of obsession, paranoia and class, set against an all-too-recognisable backdrop of the decade that taste forgot.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 464
Edition: 1st Paperback Edition
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 06 Nov 2006
ISBN 10: 0007232322
ISBN 13: 9780007232321
Praise for `The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia':
`May's shrewd sideways glance makes this a novel moving and menacing by turns.' Observer
'The narrative is beautifully observed, with the subtle touch of a writer who makes every action and mannerism feel plausible. Sarah May has a rare talent for melding the farcical with the tragic, and has produced a novel which - but for an ending worthy of Tom Sharpe - is a scathingly successful piece of social commentary.' Daily Mail
`Sarah May has brought the obsessions, ambitions and class paranoia of Thatcher's Britain beautifully back to life. It's a visceral read, but this is one book you'll be happy to read in a rush.' Daily Express
`Full of hilarious pop-culture detail, this is a dizzying celebration of the 80s...Laugh-out-loud.' Eve Magazine
`Like Mike Leigh directing Desperate Housewives; a brilliantly 1980s suburban drama.' Elle Magazine
`Truly original chick-lit.' Heat
Sarah May is an intimate observer of society (AKA curtain-twitcher of the highest order). She is the author of four previous novels: The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia, The Nudist Colony, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award; Spanish City and The Internationals. She lives in London with her theatre director husband and their two children.
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