The Fair Fight - Hardcover

Críticas

The Fair Fight is a hugely exciting and entertaining novel, written with warmth, charm, authority and, above all, terrific flair. I loved it. (SARAH WATERS)

(A) cracking debut... It is a lively, rambunctious read which captures Bristol street life brilliantly and niftily sets the scene for a memorable collection of characters who are prepared to gamble everything to gain hope and some form of happiness. (Eithne Farry SUNDAY EXPRESS)

Anna Freeman's familiarity with this rough and raunchy period of history and her wonderfully imagined cast of characters, often down but never out, makes this a brilliant debut novel. (Rose Wild THE TIMES)

This storming debut is fiction at its most absorbing. It'll be first in line for Freeman's next offering. (Kat Poole STYLIST)

For lovers of the evocative historical romps of Sarah Waters and Michel Faber this is a visceral and funny debut. (EMERALD STREET)

(Anna's) enthusiasm for the subject matter and her skill at creating powerful narrative voices are in strong evidence in this gritty, vividly evoked historical novel. Fans of Sarah Waters and Emma Donoghue, take note. (DIVA MAGAZINE)

An accomplished first novel that reminded me somewhat of Peter Carey's Jack Maggs. (NED DENNY DAILY MAIL)

lively and original (THE SUNDAY TIMES)

Passion and pugilism ...(an) original, memorable debut novel. (Nick Rennison BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE)

Freeman's first novel is shocking but a cracker. The writing is good and the characters totally believable. I loved it. (LESLEY PEARSE SAINBURYS MAGAZINE)

Reseña del editor

Some call the prize ring a nursery for vice . . .

Born into a brothel, Ruth's future looks bleak until she catches the eye of Mr Dryer. A rich Bristol merchant and enthusiast of the ring, he trains gutsy Ruth as a pugilist. Soon she rules the blood-spattered sawdust at the infamous Hatchet Inn.

Dryer's wife Charlotte lives in the shadows. A grieving orphan, she hides away, scarred by smallpox, ignored by Dryer, and engaged in dangerous mind games with her brother.

When Dryer sidelines Ruth after a disastrous fight, and focuses on training her husband Tom, Charlotte presents Ruth with an extraordinary proposition. As the tension mounts before Tom's Championship fight, two worlds collide with electrifying consequences.

THE FAIR FIGHT will take you from a filthy brothel to the finest houses in the town, from the world of street-fighters to the world of champions. Alive with the smells and the sounds of the streets, it is a raucous, intoxicating tale of courage, reinvention and fighting your way to the top.