In Search of the Missing Eyelash
Karen Mcleod
Lizzie is lonely. Her parents have gone and her brother, who believes he's a woman, is missing. Most of all, though, Lizzie is preoccupied by Sally, her former lover who has gone off with a man with a fat neck. This book is about home, love and loss and what can become undone when we try to make it better. It's also about gender and sex.
Posted by drew_gummerson@abctales.com (1 year ago ) Another book that made me laugh.
Lizzie's girlfriend has dumped her for a man with a fat neck, her brother, who likes dressing up as a woman has disappeared, and now her mother has gone too.
Lizzie decides to take up some stalking - she wants to find out if Sally, the ex, really doesn't love her anymore. This involves breaking into her house, following her on holiday in disguise - the French resistance look, black bobbed wig, black mac.
It's great about being in love, waiting for texts, analysing how many 'x's they have on them.
It has great secondary characters. Petula downstairs, her best friend and sex addict 'You know anal sex is very in at the moment', who talks about her boyfriends but we never get to see them - the Welsh poet, the Welsh barman, the bouncer.
And it also has a great sense of place. Lizzie works in a cafe (all the pensioners who come in go on a trip to see the whale that is swimming up the Thames), she goes to the launderette, local pubs, lives in a flat, drinks wine and takes a bottle of vodka in her bag to drink before going out in Brighton.
The humour is dry, doesn't feel forced, and it isn't contrived.
Definitely recommended and Ali Smith likes it too. In fact, good reviews all round.
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