Beschreibung:
In the house where Marie lives, the cutlery is running wild ... Madness and fairy-story creep hand in hand in this darkly comic tale, where the mice learn the art of voodoo; where murdered bodies miraculously vanish; where the grandmother is sometimes an owl and where steak-knives grow so hungry that they scream.
Shortlisted for The Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2012In the house where Marie lives, the cutlery is running wild …Madness and fairy story creep hand in hand in this darkly comic tale. At the top of a narrow driveway there is a shambling Victorian house full of dust and stairs. The walls inside are ancient emulsion, sloughing off the distemper walls in gorgeous ribbons.The mice that infest the dining room chimney-breast are living out their own dreams and nightmares, learning voodoo and the meaning of love and forgiveness. In The Knife Drawer, dead bodies miraculously vanish as if scraped to nothing by pudding spoons.Marie's mother has rather lost her wits since she did away with her husband. She could swear they're out to get her; even the house gets messy on purpose, all by itself. Marie's twin is living in a hole in the back-garden, small and round as a cherry pip, waiting to be discovered.In The Knife Drawer the steak knives grow so hungry that they scream. When the children murder the rent man, things get a little out of hand …
Prologue: Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse
PART ONE
Knife
The Mother
Mice
House
The Mother
Mice
The Mother
The Mother
Mice
House
PART TWO
Marie
The Mother
Mice
Marie
The Mother
Mice
Child
Marie
Mice
Child
Mice
Marie
Mice
Marie
The Mother
Mice
Marie
Knife
The Mother
Mice
Marie
Child
Rent Man
Marie
The Mother
Mice
Marie
The Mother
Knives
Mice
Child
Mice
Mice
Marie
Knife
The Mother
Marie
The Mother
Child
Marie
Mice
Marie
Knife
PART THREE
Marie
Mice
Knife
Marie
Mice
Marie
Knife
Marie
Mice
Marie
Knife
Marie
Mice
Rent Man
Marie
Mice
House
Marie
Mice
Marie
Mice
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