The Bus on Thursday - Softcover

Barrett, Shirley

 
9780708898802: The Bus on Thursday
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0708898807 ISBN 13: 9780708898802
Verlag: Fleet, 2019

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Bridget Jones meets Twin Peaks in this black comedy about a woman's retreat to a remote Australian town and the horrors awaiting her.

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Shirley Barrett is best known for her work as a screenwriter and director. Shirley's first film, Love Serenadewon the Camera D'Or (Best First Feature) at Cannes Film Festival in 1996. The script for her most recent filmSouth Solitary won the Queensland Premier's Prize (script) 2010, the West Australian Premier's Literary Prize (script) 2010, and the West Australian Premier's Prize 2010. RUSH OH! is Shirley's first novel. She lives in Sydney, Australia.

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'I was hooked from the opening pages . . . it's laugh-out-loud horrible and perfectly nuts' Guardian

'This is a sharp, twisted, hilarious treasure of a book. Sort of Twin Peaks meets Bad Teacher that had me laughing, wincing and falling in love with the flawed and flawless narrator' Jess Kidd

Eleanor arrives in Talbingo - population 241 - looking for a fresh start. But 241 has recently become 240, because the town's schoolteacher has gone AWOL - presenting Eleanor with a chance to start again.


Escaping a life turned upside down, recovering from a bad break-up and illness, Eleanor thinks Talbingo might offer a regenerative form of solitude. What she finds is a remote cabin with no phone service or wifi and an alarming number of locks on the front door, which someone keeps knocking on late at night.


A disconcerting story of small-town life, The Bus on Thursday is a wicked, weird, wild ride.

'Hilarious . . . This witty, wise and rather demented novel occupies a strange, and possibly unique, space between screwball comedy, murder mystery and magical realism' Wendy Holden, Daily Mail


'Funny, angry, feminist . . . [Barrett is] a masterly world-builder' New York Times Book Review

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Verlag
Fleet
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0708898807
ISBN 13 
9780708898802
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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