Showing results for title "The Starving Bride", by author "Catherine Chidgey" in All Categories

Roll up, roll up, ladies and gents, boys and girls! Don't miss your chance to see the sensation of the season: the Starving Bride! This plucky lass has pledged to fast for forty days and forty nights, shut inside a glass casket, in the company of a genuine lion! Come at the start of your holiday...

England, the near future. Dumped by her boyfriend, fired from her job and estranged from her parents, Hazel Whitlock signs up for a sideshow act in Blackpool. The seaside resort has revived all the cancelled old favourites and she will be the Starving Bride. On display in the iconic Blackpool...

A provocative novel about female bodies, friendships, and self-sacrifice, by the internationally acclaimed author of The Book of Guilt Look at her. How serene she is in her long white dress, eyes closed like a stone copy of herself. Perhaps she lives on air… Dumped by her boyfriend, fired from...