Missy
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A rowdy, exuberant, badly behaved blast of an adventure, Missy begins in 1862 with Dol McQueen, nineteen-year-old flash girl and opium user, heading for a boom town in the American West. On the way she prevents a man from hanging himself only to discover he is a murderous pimp.When he turns up later at the saloon where she has found work with some stolen goods he wants her to hide, Dol grabs the chance to start a new life and takes off into the wilderness with the loot and all hell in pursuit. Her alcoholic mother is an added burden on the mad, epic journey: can Dol save herself, her mother and their poisonous relationship?Like her literary predecessors, Becky Sharpe and Moll Flanders, Dol is a flawed but irresistible anti-heroine, and Missy is an astounding debut.

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Weight 0.215 kg
Dimensions 1.8 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

304
Publisher

Year Published

2009-7-2
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0099501554
About The Author

Missy is the first novel by playwright Chris Hannan. His award-winning plays include Shining Souls, The Evil Doers, Elizabeth Gordon Quinn and The Baby; and have been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre of Scotland and Sir Peter Hall at the Old Vic. In 2001/02 he was Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Drama at the University of Cambridge. He lives in Edinburgh.

When a brilliant, award-winning Scottish playwright produces a first novel, you don't expect to be recommending it as a perfect beach read…Funny and exhilarating – Moll Flanders on drugs
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Narrated by one of the more luminous characters in recent fiction

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