‘A wonderfully unsettling psychological thriller’
MAIL ON SUNDAY
WAR CRIMES FOR THE HOME
‘You know what they say about GIs and English girls’ knickers,’ ran the wartime joke, ‘One Yank and they’re off.’ When Gloria met Ron, he was an American pilot who thought nothing of getting hit by shrapnel in the cockpit. She was working in a munitions factory in Bristol during the Blitz, but still found time to grab what she wanted. Ciggies. Sex. American soldiers. But war has an effect on people. Gloria did all sorts of things she wouldn’t normally do – evil things, some of them – because she might be dead tomorrow. Or someone might. Now, fifty years on, it’s payback time. In her old folks’ home, Gloria is forced to remember the real truth about her and Ron, and confront the secret at the heart of her dramatic home front story. In a gripping, vibrant evocation of wartime Britain, Liz Jensen explores the dark impulses of women whose war crimes are committed on the home front, in the name of sex, survival, greed and love.
‘Breathtakingly coarse, wryly amusing and gut-wrenchingly tragic’
MARIE CLAIRE
THE PAPER EATER
Meet Hannah Park, slave to the democracy machine, and Harvey Kidd, the man the system spat out. Atlantica, a world of compulsive consumption, fervent Utopianism, emotional discovery, and love on the rocks. Torn from his family, exiled from his native island, and imprisoned on the former Disney ship Sea Hero, one-time computer whiz Harvey Nash has found solace in the voodoo art of papiermache. But as the execution date of his violent cellmate approaches, he is confronted with daily reminders of the wrongful sentence meted out to him by the consumer-dedicated system he once voted for. In a witty, satirical vision of the future, Jensen evokes a world of rampant consumerism, blind obedience and virtual love.
‘Sparkling … sharp, funny and richly imagined, this is as timely a warning about rampant consumerism as Orwell’s 1984 was about state control’
SUNDAY EXPRESS
EGG DANCING
With only a schizophrenic mother and a militantly hostile sister for backup, Hazel Sugden, food-splattered mum and queen of low self-esteem, is palpably unfit to save the future of mankind as we know it. But when embryology, psychiatry and religion clash over the miracle designer drug Genetic Choice, the dysfunctional trio is propelled into action with explosively comic results …
‘An assured, hilarious and insightful novel … propelled along by the comic rhythm of the writing, you’re carried on a crazy journey you won’t be sorry you took’
TIME OUT
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title
Contents
Copyright
Also by The Same Author
Prologue
Chapter 1: 2005: In Which A Rogue Male Escapes From The Herd
Chapter 2: In Which A Mistaken Piglet Hovers Near Death
Chapter 3: Cuisine Zoologique
Chapter 4: 2005: In Which The Rogue Male Effects Metamorphosis
Chapter 5: Father Of The Man
Chapter 7: In Which The Rogue Male Attempts Integration In The Stone Dcrow
Chapter 8: In Which Disease Strikes
Chapter 9: The Scrapie Dinosaur
Chapter 10: In Which The Rogue Male Searches For A Mate
Chapter 11: The Flood
Chapter 12: The Empress Takes Her Leave
Chapter 13: Gone Today, Here Tomorrow
Chapter 14: The Origin Of Species
Chapter 15: Long Live Death
Chapter 16: The Feeding Ritual
Chapter 17: A Coming Of Age
Chapter 18: Adieu
Chapter 19: 2005: The Mating Ritual
Chapter 20: Farewell!
Chapter 22: Bestial Urges
Chapter 23: The Jar
Chapter 24: A Pregnant Pause
Chapter 25: On The Threshold Of The Future
Chapter 26: Darwin’s Paradox
Chapter 27: In Which Tobias Phelps Attempts A Confession
Chapter 28: The Celebration Of Evolution Banquet
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
About the Author