Mrs Engels

Zusatztext 'The best first novel I read this year.' Informationen zum Autor Gavin McCrea is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, Mrs Engels (2015) and The Sisters Mao (2021), both published by Scribe. His articles have appeared in The Paris Review , The Guardian , The Irish Times , Catapult , and LitHub . Klappentext FICTION / General Very little is known about Lizzie Burns, the poor Irishwoman who married the co-author of The Communist Manifesto and the first and greatest of the champagne communists, Friedrich Engels. In this novel, Lizzie Burns is finally given a voice - one that won't easily be forgotten. Zusammenfassung From the bathing huts of Ramsgate to the hovels of Soho, from a surreptitious life in Manchester to a notorious one on the handsome new parade that is London's Regents Park Road, this book follows Lizzie and the Engels household as it struggles to match its communist principles with its hunger for the high life.

Product details

• Authors: Gavin McCrea, McCrea Gavin
• Publisher: Faber Factory Plus GBS
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.05.2015
• EAN: 9781922247957
• ISBN: 978-1-922247-95-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, London, Greater London, FICTION / Historical, Historical romance, Historical fiction, Political Ideologies, Manchester, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, FICTION / Romance / Historical / Victorian, c 1800 to c 1900, Ireland