The Night Brother
- Author Rosie Garland
- Narrator Georgia Maguire, Gareth Bennett-Ryan, Emma Gregory
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 1 June 2017
- Run Time 13 hours and 26 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic fiction, Historical fiction.
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What to expect
‘Echoes of Angela Carter’s more fantastical fiction reverberate through this exuberant tale of a hermaphrodite Jekyll and Hyde figure … enjoyably energetic’ SUNDAY TIMES
Late nineteenth-century Manchester is a city of charms and dangers – the perfect playground for young siblings, Edie and Gnome. But as they grow up, they grow apart, and while Gnome revels in the night-time, Edie wakes each morning, exhausted and uneasy, with only a dim memory of the dark hours.
Convinced she deserves more than this half-life, she tries to break free from Gnome and forge her own future. But Gnome is always right behind, somehow seeming to know her even better than she knows herself. Edie must choose whether to keep running or to turn and face her fears.
The Night Brother is a dazzling and adventurous novel exploring questions of identity, belonging, sexual equality and how well we really know ourselves.
Critics Review
Praise for The Night Brother:
n‘Rosie Garland writes in a tumble of poetry, desire and passion, as intriguing and delicious as the story she tells’ Stella Duffy
n‘A rich and ambitious tale … Garland's prose is a delight: playful and exuberant’ THE TIMES
n‘Echoes of Angela Carter’s more fantastical fiction reverberate through this exuberant tale of a hermaphrodite Jekyll and Hyde figure …enjoyably energetic’ SUNDAY TIMES
nPraise for The Palace of Curiosities:
n‘Garland’s lush prose is always a pleasure’ GUARDIAN
n‘A jewel-box of a novel … Garland is a real literary talent: definitely an author to watch’ Sarah Waters
n‘An alternately brutal and beautiful story about love and belonging in a vividly conveyed underworld, rich in carny phantasmagoria and lyrical romance’ METRO
n‘Bewitching’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
n‘Reminds me of Angela Carter’ Jenni Murray
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