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Dreams of Leaving (Paperback)

Rupert Thomson (author)

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Paperback 448 Pages
Published: 30/08/2012

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New Egypt is a village somewhere in the South of England. A village that nobody has ever left. Peach, the sadistic chief of police, makes sure of that. Then, one misty morning, a young couple secretly set their baby son Moses afloat on the river, in a basket made of rushes. Years later, Moses is living above a nightclub, mixing with drug-dealers, thieves and topless waitresses. He knows nothing about his past - but it is catching up with him nevertheless, and it threatens to put his life in danger. Terror, magic and farce all have a part to play as the worlds of Peach and Moses slowly converge.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781408833148
Number of pages: 448
Weight: 298 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

One of the most haunting, resonant and clever parables about England you'll ever read - Guardian

Imagine the quintessential English village filmed by Bunuel and written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - New York Times Book Review

Thomson chillingly fuses the real and the unreal with terrifying grace and infinite imagination. It's hard to believe this sophisticated, edgy novel is his first - Mail on Sunday

When someone writes as well as Thomson does, it makes you wonder why other people bother - New Statesman

Rupert Thomson

An award winning British novelist, Rupert Thomson published his first novel, Dreams of Leaving, in 1987 to widespread acclaim. A regular contributor to publications including the Guardian and the Financial Times, his novels reflect a peripatetic life which has seen him live variously in New York, Athens, Sydney, Rome, Los Angeles, Amsterdam and Barcelona. His best-known works include: The Insult (which was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and chosen by David Bowie as one of his 100 Must-Read Books of All Time), Death of a Murderer (which was shortlisted for the Costa Prize) and the memoir This Party’s Got to Stop (which won the Writers’ Guild Non-Fiction Book of the Year). His latest novel is 2018’s Never Anyone But You.

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