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Sarah May - The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia: A Black-Hearted Soap Opera - 9780007232321 - KTM0000637
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The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia: A Black-Hearted Soap Opera

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Description for The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia: A Black-Hearted Soap Opera Paperback. Do you know what your neighbours get up to behind closed doors? And more to the point, do you want to know? 'The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia is a darkly comic portrayal of marriage, relationships, neighbours and suburbia. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 312. Clean copy with some reader wear.

Do you know what your neighbours get up to behind closed doors? And more to the point, do you want to know? ‘The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia is a darkly comic portrayal of marriage, relationships, neighbours and suburbia.

Welcome to Littlehaven, where serving pineapple with cottage cheese at a dinner party is the very height of glamorous sophistication; where sulky teenagers join CND and obsess as much about the threat of nuclear war as they do about their latest acne outbreak; and where missing a Green ... Read more

‘The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia’ is a black-hearted soap opera, a smart, sharp study of obsession, paranoia and class, set against an all-too-recognisable backdrop of the decade that taste forgot.

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Product Details

Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007232321
SKU
KTM0000637
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Sarah May
Sarah May is an intimate observer of society (AKA curtain-twitcher of the highest order). She is the author of four previous novels: The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia, The Nudist Colony, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award; Spanish City and The Internationals. She lives in London with her theatre director husband and their two ... Read more

Reviews for The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia: A Black-Hearted Soap Opera
Praise for ‘The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia’: ‘May’s shrewd sideways glance makes this a novel moving and menacing by turns.’ Observer 'The narrative is beautifully observed, with the subtle touch of a ... Read more

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