Peerless Flats (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Esther Freud
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Girls, Family or family life, Teenagers, Love or romance, Gambling, Heroin, London, Drama or dramatists, Poisons or poisoning
- Locales: London, England
Like her first novel, HIDEOUS KINKY, Esther Freud’s PEERLESS FLATS presents a girl in an anxious relationship with her family. Sixteen-year-old Lisa rushes about London, protective of her somewhat harebrained mother Marguerite and her violently imaginative five-year-old brother Max. She worships her eighteen-year-old sister Ruby (who has left home and is a drug addict) and indulges her love for her childhood sweetheart Tom and her recent boyfriend Quentin.
No one in Lisa’s world is settled or secure, including herself. Tom leaves a farm management job in East Anglia,...
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