Come to the Edge
On sale
5th July 2012
Price: £10.99
Take one narrator in retreat from suburban life, a shambolic draughty farmhouse in a scenic valley, two psychotic goats, one banker, a village-full of empty second homes and scores of poor and elderly people with nowhere to go.
Take one widowed survivalist called Cassandra White.
Take an escalating state of hostilities between the haves who don’t even use what they have, and the have-nots who decide they’re sick of having nothing at all.
Take one crazy scheme to reclaim the valley for the locals.
What do you get?
A hilarious, timely satire from Joanna Kavenna, the prize-winning author of Inglorious and The Birth of Love…
Take one widowed survivalist called Cassandra White.
Take an escalating state of hostilities between the haves who don’t even use what they have, and the have-nots who decide they’re sick of having nothing at all.
Take one crazy scheme to reclaim the valley for the locals.
What do you get?
A hilarious, timely satire from Joanna Kavenna, the prize-winning author of Inglorious and The Birth of Love…
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Reviews
'Kavenna is a fantastically hilarious writer with scepticism, irony and venom pouring out of her fingertips' Avrupa.
'An absolute knock-out - had me laughing again and again' Chris Cleave.
'a short, sharp shock of a read, darkly funny and enjoying a satirical poke at the impracticability and earnestness of some anti-capitalists' Country Life magazine.
'Oh my aching sides ... Laugh? I nearly exploded reading Kavenna's knock-out satire on alternative lifestyle' Daily Mail.
'A resonance of mental instability thrums throughout as Kavenna probes received notions of justice and equality, property and rights, in this often hilarious and fast-paced tale of rural revolt' Independent.
'Kavenna's comedy is effortless, brilliant and occasionally savage' Literary Review.
'Kavenna writes as if possessed, as if on a mission, as if she had been taken over by her wonderful, impossible, dynamic leading character ... This is a novel to read at speed, laughing all the way to the edge' Observer.
'crackles and sparkles and will have you chuckling on every page' Red Online.
'sharp, neat, well written and darkly comic' Telegraph.