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Mr Cadmus
Peter Ackroyd
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Description for Mr Cadmus
Hardback.
Two apparently harmless women reside in cottages one building apart in the idyllic English village of Little Camborne. Miss Finch and Miss Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them and settled into conventional country life. But when a mysterious foreigner, Theodore Cadmus - from Caldera, a Mediterranean island nobody has heard of - moves into the middle cottage, the safe monotony of their lives is shattered.
The fates of the two cousins and Mr Cadmus, and those of Little Camborne and Caldera, become inextricably enmeshed. Long-hidden secrets and long-held grudges threaten to surface, drawing all into a vortex ... Read moreof subterfuge, theft, violence, mayhem . . . and murder.
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Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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About Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning author of novels including Hawksmoor, Chatterton and The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde, biographies of Ezra Pound, Blake and Dickens among others, and acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography and Thames: Sacred River. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the ... Read moreGuardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature. Show Less
Reviews for Mr Cadmus
A darkly witty fable ... a tale of vengeance that begins to take on the swerving, lurid velocity of a fever dream
Spectator
Entertaining and wildly unpredictable, with a soupçon of the supernatural
Daily Mail
Mr Cadmus is a treat of a tale. To a "polite" English village ... Read moreadd a sprinkling of sinister. The result? Cosy and twisted, comic and gothic, with a show-stealing parrot
JESS KIDD Murderous intrigue plays out against a backdrop of curtain-twitching small-town banality in this playful black comedy
Sunday Times
Follows the mysterious Mr Cadmus who hails from a Mediterranean island nobody has heard of and turns life in the idyllic English village of Little Camborne upside down
The Times, Best books to look out for
Blackly comic . . . as the body count mounts, Ackroyd's novel moves beyond Midsomer Murders territory and into the realm of the truly weird
Daily Mail
Praise for Peter Ackroyd: Extraordinary, amazing, vivid, convincing. [Ackroyd's] view of life questions the role not just of the novel but of art and history, memory, time and much else
Financial Times
A novel remarkable for [its] power, ingenuity and subtlety
London Review of Books
Chillingly brilliant . . . sinister and stunningly well executed
Independent on Sunday
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