The Bad Sister

The Bad Sister
Authors
Tennant, Emma
Publisher
Canongate Books
Tags
classics
ISBN
9781847675583
Date
1978-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.63 MB
Lang
en
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Introduced by Candia McWilliam.The Bad SisterTwo Women of LondonWild NightsThis omnibus edition brings together for the first time three of Tennant's most acclaimed works, all of which share a spiritual affinity. The Bad Sister and Two Women of London retell two Scottish masterpieces of the macabre - James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - resetting their claustrophobic and terrifying examinations of duality in the contemporary environment of London through female protagonists.The third book, Wild Nights, is a tour de force of descriptive writing as well as a tale of old love and family friction, and completes a trilogy of immense power and enduring value.'Tennant has the authentic knack of tapping into one's mental and nervous wiring . . . to read her is to feel oneself in the grip of something as absorbing and impossible not to respond to as a close family.' Candia McWilliam'The year's best novel . . . a whirlwind of pure imagination, and for that reason far more real than most so-called fiction: as exhilarating as racing the rapids in a glass gondola with a white witch at the helm.' J.G. Ballard on The Bad Sister