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Carolyn Slaughter's first novel, The Story of the Weasel, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. She followed it with nine further novels, including Dreams of the Kalahari and The Innocents. She now lives in America and works as a psychotherapist. She is at work on a novel set in India.
Her language is powerful, visceral... she forcefully conveys that jittery, powerful, intoxicating thing - that thing of Africa, that thing that, once you love it, you don't escape. * Independent * Shows the tragic and lasting consequences of a childhood blighted by fear and hate...writes with lyrical imprecision about the primal innocence and beauty of the Arfican way of life. * Sunday Telegraph * Painful, tragic family saga... a brave book, beautifully written and full of vivid imagery...I read it at a breathless sitting. * Daily Mail * Hypnotic... deeply moving and disturbing... For those willing to brave the dark without a candle, illumination lies ahead. * The Sunday Times * What we need, wrote Franz Kafka, are books that affect us like some grievous misfortune, like the death of one whom we loved more than ourselves. Carolyn Slaughter's Before the Knife is such a book ... Slaughter's bravery has resulted in a book so searing and powerful that words cannot easily do it justice. It must, simply, be read. * Evening Standard *
