The Looking Glass
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Looking Glass
By (Author) Michele Roberts
Little, Brown Book Group
Virago Press Ltd
8th October 2001
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 126mm, Height 200mm, Spine 15mm
346g
Description
In her place as maid to Madame Patin in the cafe next to the sea, orphan Genevieve becomes the breathless audience for her mistress's alarming folk stories, beginning with the one about the mermaid - the beauty who is also a monster - who must be killed. Genevieve happily falls into the patterns and ways of Madame Patin and contentedly cooks, cleans, gardens and serves the customers alongside her. Until, that is, Genevieve ripens to siren beauty. To avoid the mermaid's fate she must take flight. And she does, to a poet who has the hearts of all his women: his mother, his mistress, his niece, his niece's governess - and before long, his new maid's.
Reviews
' 'Bitter, balanced and sophisticated...Powerful tale of female need, desire and projection ... highly compelling' LITERARY REVIEW 'A gift to treasure' THE TIMES
Author Bio
Half-English and half-French, MichFle Roberts was born in 1949. DAUGHTERS OF THE HOUSE (1992) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the WH Smith Literary Award.
