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Love Me Tender

Jane Feaver

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English
Vintage
15 May 2010
'Ribald, exuberant and sophisticated... A complete joy' - Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph.

There is more going on in the village of Buckleigh than meets the eye and its sense of community is often as much a curse as a blessing. While Barrie, the local mayor, is driven into the arms of tough single mother Debbie, his father lusts after a former chorus girl whose breath now smells of 'cabbage and chocolates'. Meanwhile, a farmer's wife is driven to murder by her unfaithful husband, a carnival queen faces an uncertain future and the postman is in danger of realising his sexual fantasies.

Playing on in the background of each of these wry, interlinked tales is the village silver band, swilling cider and keeping a sharp eye out for any misbehaviour.
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   171g
ISBN:   9780099521280
ISBN 10:   0099521288
Pages:   240
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jane Feaver was born in Durham in 1964. After reading English at university she worked at the Pitt Rivers Museum and then in the Poetry Department at Faber and Faber. In 2001 she moved to Devon with her daughter. Her first novel, According to Ruth, was published to critical acclaim in 2007.

Reviews for Love Me Tender

Confirms her considerable talents * The Independent * The neatness and power of Feaver's writing is a spartan pleasure: when shafts of poetical insight or tenderness break through its restraint they are genuinely luminous and moving * Guardian * Jane Feaver has proved an expert at creating a sense of place ... tender, imaginative prose -- Vicky Allen * Sunday Herald * She has a wonderful way of teasing out the comedy of people struggling to deal with what the poet Frances Cornford called 'the long littleness of life' -- Kate Saunders * The Times * These lives are captured in surprising, sometimes shocking ways. The timelessness of Jane Feaver's fiction conceals a quality of enchanting newness. This is a unique voice -- Philip Hensher * Daily Telegraph *


  • Short-listed for Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story 2010
  • Shortlisted for Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story 2010.

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