PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Lilian Pizzichini's first book won the CWA Gold Dagger for non-fiction, the story of her criminal grandfather and the London underworld. Her biography of Jean Rhys was a Radio 4 book of the week and was shortlisted for the Washington Arts prize in the US. Her last book was a Spectator book of the year. She has been researching the life of Mariella Novotny for more than a decade.
'The story gently evokes a time and a place and characters, part Runyonian and part we know where you live , that seem to have vanished after their glory days in the sixties and early seventies.' -- Tom Mangold 'Sex, crime, espionage, betrayal and revenge. They are all present in Lilian Pizzichini's page turner of the life of Mariella Novotny, a 1960s bad girl gone to worse and then to very worse.' -- James Morton, author of KRAYS: THE FINAL WORD
