by Laura Wilson (Author)
In 1967 Bunny Girl Alice Jones met Lenny Maxted - one half of the brilliant comic duo, Maxted and Flowers - and fell deeply in love with him. But, like so many great comics, Lenny had a dark side. Their love affair ended when Alice found his body hanging from a beam in a Wiltshire cottage. Seven years after his death, in the long hot summer of 1976, Alice is leading a quiet, almost reclusive life in an Oxfordshire farmhouse when, out of the blue, Lenny's partner, Jack Flowers, turns up on her doorstep. Alice has not seen him since Lenny's funeral, but her surprise and pleasure turn into an all too familiar sense of unease when she discovers that he is distressed and drinking heavily. At the same time a car containing human remains is fished out of a Wiltshire lake...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: QPD
Published: 01 Jan 2003
ISBN 10: 0752853813
ISBN 13: 9780752853819
Book Overview: Outstanding reviews for Laura Wilson's novels: 'Like her stunning debut A LITTLE DEATH, Laura Wilson's DYING VOICES takes the reader back and forth between a menacing present and a terrible past. The writing is graceful and intelligent, all the characters are well presented and distinct and one puts the book down eager for the next' (Donna Leon, Sunday Times) 'The gradual reconstruction of missing years makes compulsive reading. The author has an ear for dialogue and a gift for creating believable characters. This is real class' (Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph) 'Brilliantly imagined... What's intriguing about this, her third novel, is hearing a writer find and exercise more and more her true voice. It is distinctive, confiding and truthful. It is, thrillingly, like no one else's' (Literary Review) A short story by Laura appeared in the Mail on Sunday's You Magazine to tie in with publication A different story was broadcasted on BBC Radio 4 on 27 December 2002