Himself by Jess Kidd5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() This striking literary debut is a darkly comic tale of murder, intrigue, haunting and illegitimacy. ![]() LOUIS DE BERNIERES, author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin It's one of those books that has you smiling as you read, and that you plan to read again very soon. It's a magic realist murder mystery set in rural Ireland, in which the dead play as important a part as the living. Utterly unputdownable * * Sunday Express Magazine * * It's a tender, violent and funny story told in prose that is lyrical, lush and hugely imaginative. Kidd's brilliantly bold debut mixes up murder and mayhem with the eerily supernatural. One of the finest books of the year - SIMON MAYO Kidd has imagination to die for and a real command of plot and character * * Guardian * * Diabolical deeds, ferociously kept secrets, black humour and magical realism abound in Jess Kidd's richly textured, thronging debut. ![]()
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