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    Blood

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    ISBN: 9781909572126
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    AuthorGee, Maggie
    Pub Date07/02/2019
    BindingPaperback
    Pages296
    Publisher: FENTUM PRESS
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    Literary black comedy with lashings of thriller. Adult children take revenge on their brutal father, but the victim crawls back ... "A wise and beautiful book about what it feels like to be alive" Zadie Smith "Fast-moving, energetic, constantly surprising" Hilary Mantel "Supremely artful" Lionel Shriver

    Who attacked Dad? When corrupt, brutal dentist Albert Ludd is found battered and bloody after failing to attend a memorial party for his youngest son, a solider, suspicion falls on his other children, especially 37-year-old buxom bruiser Monica, who was heard "uttering threats" against her absent father. How come her car is found outside his house? Why did she buy a large axe? Yet, Monica's a deputy head.
    Blood is a Gothic black comedy seen through the eyes of six-foot Monica, who speaks her secret thoughts aloud and who has been banned by the principal of her school, from using social media: "Parents are sensitive to abuse. Governors query `moron' and `twat'."
    Blood asks serious questions about modern life: what can we do with the brutal men who bully women and the weak? Can we wait for a world of order and justice? If we hit back, can the circle of violence ever be broken?