Toto Among the Murderers - an atmospheric gritty novel of a young female hitchhiker in 1970s

Informationen zum Autor Sally J Morgan was born in the Welsh mining town of Abertyleri, and grew up nomadically across Wales and England. She lives and works in Wellington, New Zealand, with her wife, the novelist Jess Richards. Toto Among the Murderers is based on her own experience of being offered a lift by Fred and Rosemary West. Klappentext 'Vividly portrays the human face of young women on the margins of society, women who defy being statistics, who have their own stories and loves to tell' Sophie WardWINNER OF THE PORTICO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE OCKHAM AWARDSLeeds in the 1970s is a place fraught with danger for young women like Jude, for her best friend Nel and Janice across the road. Jude flirts with the wrong kind of people, gets drunk too often, ends up on wild hitch-hiking jaunts up and down the country. Until now it has all been fun, a way to let off steam when the relationship she's having with a married woman doesn't work out. Jude doesn't pay much attention to the news: to the young women who have been going missing, to the young women who haven't been returning home, to the dangers out there. That is until she's offered a lift by a couple in a grey car, a couple who have been stalking the roads, looking for someone exactly like her., Zusammenfassung An atmospheric debut novel set in 1970s Leeds and Sheffield when attacks on women punctuated the news

Product details

• Authors: Sally J Morgan, Sally J Morgan
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 23.06.2022
• EAN: 9781399804004
• ISBN: 978-1-399-80400-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Yorkshire, Leeds, Bradford, New Zealand, Modern and contemporary fiction, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980