โ Scribed by Nicola Barker
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The first novel by the acclaimed, brilliantly unconventional Nicola Barker, prize-winning author of The Yips
Reversed Forecast is a vivid snapshot of pre-gentrification London and a tale of finding love in less-than-scenic places. Chance meetings between its cast of inimitably odd individuals--Ruby, the betting-shop cashier; violently disturbed (and disturbing) Vincent; Samantha, the would-be cabaret singer; and Little Buttercup, the never-quite-made-it greyhound--result in the unlikeliest of couples. There's always the risk that it could all be disastrous as characters try--or don't try--to make winning combinations. But as Ruby, the story's soft-centered heroine, observes: "Losing, that's the whole point of the gamble."
Dazzling, gritty, and surprising, Reversed Forecast is the uniquely entertaining first novel by Nicola Barker, previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Hawthornden Prize and IMPAC Dublin Literary...
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