Their Lips Talk of Mischief by Alan Warner
Title | Their Lips Talk of Mischief |
Author | Alan Warner |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Release | 2014-08-19 |
Category | Fiction |
Total Pages | 320 |
ISBN | 0571311296 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
High up in the Conrad Flats that loom bleakly over Acton, two future stars of the literary scene - or so they assume - are hard at work, tapping out words of wit and brilliance between ill-paid jobs writing captions for the Cat Calendar 1985 and blurbs for trashy novels with titles like Brothel of the Vampire. Just twenty-one but already well entrenched in a life eked out on dole payments, pints and dollops of porridge and pasta, Llewellyn and Cunningham don't have it too bad: a pub on the corner, a misdirected parental allowance, and the delightful company of Aoife, Llewellyn's model fiancée, mother of his young baby - and the woman of Cunningham's increasingly vivid dreams. Alan Warner's superb new novel sees the author of Morvern Callar at the top of his game.