Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile

In this Folio Prize-shortlisted novel, Alice Jolly gives joyful, poetic voice to the silenced women of the past

About the author

Alice Jolly is a novelist and playwright. Her memoir Dead Babies and Seaside Towns won the PEN Ackerley Prize 2016. She also won the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize awarded by the Royal Society of Literature in 2014 for one of her short stories, 'Ray the Rottweiler'. She has written two novels previously, What the Eye Doesn't See and If Only You Knew. Her next novel, Between the Regions of Kindness, will be published in 2019. She has written for the Guardian, Mail on Sunday and the Independent, and she has broadcast for Radio 4. She lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

Summary

In this astonishing Folio Prize-shortlisted novel, Alice Jolly gives joyful, poetic voice to the silenced women of the past

Product details

• Authors: Alice Jolly
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781783528660
• ISBN: 978-1-78352-866-0
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945)