‘Breathtakingly coarse, wryly amusing and gut-wrenchingly tragic’
In fin-de-siecle Copenhagen, part-time prostitute Charlotte and her lumpen sidekick, Fru Schleswig, have taken on jobs as cleaning ladies of dubious talent to tide them over the harsh winter of 1897. But the home of their neurotic new employer, the widow Krak, soon reveals itself to be riddled with dark secrets – including the existence of a demonic machine rumoured to swallow people alive. Rudely catapulted into twenty-first-century London, the hapless duo discover a whole new world of glass, labour-saving devices and hectic, impossible romance.
‘Unashamedly gleefuclass="underline" a kind of topsy-turvy Jane Eyre with added time travel… Sit back, suspend your disbelief, and enjoy’
With only a schizophrenic mother and a militantly hostile sister for backup, Hazel Sugden, food-splattered mum and queen of low self-esteem, is palpably unfit to save the future of mankind as we know it. But when embryology, psychiatry and religion clash over the miracle designer drug Genetic Choice, the dysfunctional trio is propelled into action with explosively comic results…
‘An assured, hilarious and insightful novel… propelled along by the comic rhythm of the writing, you’re carried on a crazy journey you won’t be sorry you took’
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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First published 2000
This electronic edition published in June 2010
by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Copyright © 2000 by Liz Jensen
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