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Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma
- Author
- Kerry Hudson
- Narrator
- Jane MacFarlane
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 4 July 2013
- Run Time
- 8 hours 28 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year and the Green Carnation Prize
‘More than just one of the best debuts of the year; one of the best books of the year. It should do for Aberdeen what Trainspotting did for Edinburgh’ Louise Welsh, Herald
When Janie Ryan is born, she is destined to be the latest in a long line of Aberdeen fishwives.
Ahead of her lies a life filled with feckless men, filthy council flats and bread & marge sandwiches.
But Janie isn’t like the rest of them. She wants a different life.
And Janie, born and bred for combat, is ready to fight for it.
Critics Review
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Colourful, funny, joyful and compelling
Observer
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There's little doubt that this young writer is going to be a star... In the course of this picaresque and haunting tale, Hudson achieves something rare and remarkable. While comparison will inevitably be made between her work and that of Irvine Welsh or Alan Warner, she is wholly individual
Herald Scotland
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Kerry Hudson’s fine, eloquent debut novel traces the peripatetic childhood of Janie Ryan...her tale is full of warmth and bittersweet humour
Financial Times
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Real and heartfelt... Hudson avoids the usual sentimental clichés and gives us, without a shred of hipster cynicism, the hope and tough warmth for which she has such a sharp eye
Guardian
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A gritty, tough, sweet , sad, funny story of urban survival. Recommended
Diva
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A sympathetic coming-of-age tale and a valuable counterpoint to widespread social attitudes to women in poverty
Metro
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Concurrently very funny and incredibly sad. The writing sizzles, and the words jump off the page as Hudson describes a world of fags, booze, bingo and worse. We watch our heroine Janie Ryan struggle through it all with humour and a will to survive. I was cheering her on all the way, and I'm sure you will, too
Waterstone's, Bookseller
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A laugh out loud read
In Style
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Told with such an honest and engaging voice that you can’t help but turn the page
ReadBetweenTheLines
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This is a remarkable debut novel of love and loyalty, of fierce passion and scabrous wit, full of characters whose broad vernacular is direct and expressive. This is about a culture with just as much right to be called British as that of middle-class suburbia
Foyles.co.uk
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Details
- Author
- Kerry Hudson
- Narrator
- Jane MacFarlane
- Duration
- 8 hours 28 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 July 2013
- ISBN
- 9781448190287
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: coming of age
Synopsis
Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year and the Green Carnation Prize ‘More than just one of the best debuts of the year; one of the best books of the year. It should do for Aberdeen what Trainspotting did for Edinburgh’ Louise Welsh, HeraldWhen Janie Ryan is born, she is destined to be the latest in a long line of Aberdeen fishwives.Ahead of her lies a life filled with feckless men, filthy council flats and bread & marge sandwiches.But Janie isn’t like the rest of them. She wants a different life.And Janie, born and bred for combat, is ready to fight for it.
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