Janet Ellis ist eine Autorin, deren Hintergrund als Schauspielerin und Fernsehmoderatorin ihre fesselnden Erzählungen prägt. Ihre Schriften tauchen tief in die Komplexität der menschlichen Psyche und vielschichtige Beziehungen ein und untersuchen die Motivationen ihrer Charaktere mit scharfer Einsicht. Nach Abschluss eines renommierten Kurses für Kreatives Schreiben gestaltet sie Geschichten, die mit emotionaler Tiefe und Authentizität überzeugen. Ihr Debütroman markierte den Beginn einer vielversprechenden literarischen Karriere.
A new, darkly compelling novel from the author of the highly-acclaimed The Butcher's Hook. It's the 1970s and in rural Kent nothing much is happening, except a woman has lit a fuse under her marriage and the explosion is coming.
Georgian London. Summer 1763. Anne Jaccob is coming of age, the daughter of a wealthy merchant. When she is taken advantage of by her tutor — a great friend of her father’s — and is set up to marry a squeamish snob named Simeon Onions, she begins to realize just how powerless she is in Georgian society. Anne is watchful, cunning, and bored. Her saviour appears in the form of Fub, the butcher’s boy. Their romance is both a great spur and an excitement. Anne knows she is doomed to a loveless marriage to Onions and she is determined to escape with Fub and be his mistress. But will Fub ultimately be her salvation or damnation? And how far will she go to get what she wants? Dark and sweeping, The Butcher’s Hook is a richly textured debut featuring one of the most memorable characters in fiction.