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Liz envies her baby Jim because he can't speak. She has altogether too many people spinning words to draw her into their lives, or trying to help her and Jim, which is worse. Once she opted out, now they've caught her. Still, it's because of Jim that she's ended up on 127 Olney Street: what her mother always called 'a proper home.' Can she escape? Mrs Purvis, the social worker, might be easy to deal with, but the over-bearing neighbours in 129 threaten to involve her whether she likes it or not... Picking through our collective nightmares, Kathy Page has written a powerful novel which examines the complex ties that bind us together, the forces that keep us apart, and the equivocal powers of the imagination. 'Page's imaginative powers are electric. She has the ability to analyse the often nightmarish qualities of the human psyche, and, as a result, Frankie Styne and the Silver Man is a taut examination of the complex emotional ties that bind, the methods we employ to distance ourselves and our ambiguous powers of imagination. She is at once poignant and provocative, stomach-churningly distasteful, yet compulsively readable.' Lucy Portch, Time Out. |
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