In Search of the Missing Eyelash (Paperback)
Karen McLeod (author)Published: 06/06/2024
First published in 2008 by Vintage this Betty Trask Award winning novel; a humorous LGBTQI+ coming of age story, is available for the first time in 17 years. Lizzie is lonely. Her parents have gone and her brother, who believes he is a woman, is missing. Most of all, though, Lizzie misses Sally, her former lover, who has gone off with a man with a fat neck. She starts to stalk Sally, collecting bathroom fluff, dust and pubes from Sally's bed - all the things that prove that somewhere life is taking place without her.
Publisher: Muswell Press
ISBN: 9781739471682
Number of pages: 194
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'TREMENDOUS! Such a mix of hilarious and poetic and delicate and tough ... WONDERFUL'. Ali Smith. 'A marvellous debut: QUIRKY, HONEST,FUNNY and SAD. I LOVED IT'. Sarah Walters. 'Combines sitcom-style farce with movingly understated heartache'. Guardian. Both comic and moving as it explores ideas of self, of gender, identification and loneliness'. Observer
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