The Mistress of Lilliput

The Mistress of Lilliput

by Alison Fell (Author)

Synopsis

While Swift may have chosen to overlook the travails of Lemuel Gulliver's wife Mary, Alison Fell imagines a life for her, and takes us on an adventure of her own.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 01 Jan 2000

ISBN 10: 1862300488
ISBN 13: 9781862300484
Book Overview: Dazzling, witty, bawdy and outrageous, an eighteenth-century pastiche, recounting the life of Lemuel Gulliver's wife.

Author Bio
Alison Fell is a Scottish writer who lives in London. Her poetry collection, Kisses for Mayakovsky, was winner of the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award and her novel, Mer de Glace, was joint winner of the Boardman Tasker Memorial Award. Her most recent novel, The Mistress of Lilliput, received unanimous acclaim. She has edited three anthologies- The Seven Deadly Sins, The Seven Cardinal Virtues and Serious Hysterics. She has been a Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia and has recently become Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at University College London. Tricks of the Light is her seventh novel.