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In Search of the Missing Eyelash

Karen McLeod

Publisher: Muswell Press

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'Both comic and moving as it explores ideas of self, of gender, identification and loneliness'.  Observer. First published in 2008 by Vintage this Betty Trask Award winning novel; a humorous LGBTQI+ coming of age story, is available for the first time in 17 years.  Lizzie is lonely.  Her parents have gone and her brother, who believes he is a woman, is missing.  Most of all, though, Lizzie misses Sally, her former lover, who has gone off with a man with a fat neck.  She starts to stalk Sally, collecting bathroom fluff, dust and pubes from Sally's bed – all the things that prove that somewhere life is taking place without her.
Available since: 06/06/2024.
Print length: 198 pages.

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