Laura Blundy: Summary and book reviews of Laura Blundy by Julie Myerson, plus links to an excerpt from Laura Blundy and a biography of Julie Myerson.

It begins with a shocking act of violence. On a humid, thundery afternoon, Laura Blundy murders the man who saved her life. He is her husband, but she has a lover. Fifteen years her junior, already the father of five, Billy is a laborer-one of thousands of faceless men installing the sewers in the city. He is the only passion Laura has ever known, and so she pursues her obsessive dream of their life together to its dire extremes. In Laura Blundy, Julie Myerson has conjured a nineteenth-century London that is tender, murky, and unsettling. As Laura's story unravels in a dizzying, elliptical narrative, the reader falls helpless prey to the seduction of this bracingly original character. A tale of the unspeakable and tragic exigencies of loss and need, Laura Blundy is an eerily unforgettable love story.

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Publishers Weekly Myerson is crafty and unsparing with her words; the pages jump with a lively expressiveness that delivers a tremendous kick.   Library Journal The novel contains starkly realistic portrayals of London's seamy underworld and grisly descriptions of amputation and dismemberment. A well-crafted story, but not for everyone's taste.   Mail On Sunday (London) Myerson knows precisely what she wants to do, and it makes your hair stand up on end.

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