Lying Perfectly Still

Laura Fish

ISBN 10: 1915789222 / ISBN 13: 9781915789228

Verlag: Fly on the Wall Press, 2024

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Leaving Oxford and the shocking death of her father behind, Koliwe travels to AIDS-ravaged Eswatini to take a job as an aid worker. The Southern Africa she encounters is a far cry from her father's stories. As she becomes enmeshed with Thandi, a local girl hiding a disturbing past, Koliwe feels increasingly split between her English identity and her rediscovered African roots. When Thandi goes missing, Koliwe\'s search for truth leads her deep into the mountains, where the harsh realities of wealth, poverty, tradition and modernity, clash. Harrowing yet richly evocative, *Lying Perfectly Still*, written from an insider\'s perspective, offers a searing exposé of the exploitation that has plagued the international development sector. 'So many jewels in this book, miniature specifics...Every page rings with authenticity.' - Monique Roffey, Costa Award Winner 'Fish is a talented and skilful writer who deserves serious attention and a wide readership.' - Sharon Duggal, Royal Literary Fund Fellow Reviews of Previous Work; 'A gifted writer and her manipulation of language is her forte - brilliant, sensuous and shocking.' - The Sunday Times 'A provocative contribution to revisionist (and feminist) post-colonial fiction.' -Times Literary Supplement 'This excellent book is worthy of comparison with Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, which it echoes, and deserves to reach a large and appreciative audience.' -The Guardian 'An accomplished storyteller whose beautiful prose delivers you right into the heart of the plantation'. -Time Out 'Once Strange Music grips you, you won't be able to put it down.' -The Independent

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Laura Fish is an award-winning writer of Caribbean heritage. She is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing programme at UEA (2002) and was awarded a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from UEA (2007).
The manuscript for her third novel, Lying Perfectly Still, was S I Leeds Reader’s Choice winner 2022, and came third in the S I Leeds Literary Prize 2022.
Her second novel, Strange Music (Jonathan Cape 2008; Vintage 2009, now available penguin.co.uk) was Orange Prize listed 2009; International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award nominated 2009; selected for Pearson Edexcel's Black British Writing A level reading guide 2017/18; is taught on university courses internationally. Her first novel, Flight of Black Swans (London: Duckworth 1995) received very favourable reviews in The Guardian, the Evening Standard, and Times Literary Supplement.
Laura is one of four writers featured in the Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature special issue, ‘Contemporary Black British Women's Writing: Experiments in Literary Form’ pp. 211-222 (founded by Germaine Greer), alongside Bernadine Evaristo, Booker Prize winner 2022.
Since 2014, Laura has been employed at Northumbria University, U.K University of the Year, Times Higher Education (THE) Awards 2022.
Laura has over 10 years’ experience with BBC in broadcast television and radio, in news, current affairs and features

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Lying Perfectly Still
Verlag: Fly on the Wall Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
Einband: PAP
Zustand: New