Sunday Best Seven Dials Granta Best Young British Novelist

Granta Best Young British Novelist and Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year

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Clues keep leading to dead ends

female killers are frequently cast as aberrant objects of public hatred and sexual desire

Heartstone and Lamentation

Sunday Best Seven Dials Granta Best Young British NovelistGeorge Verrey Smith, a suburban teacher, is bored. Bored with his wife, his life, his job. He endures each bleak day with his joyless wife named Joy. The only bright spot in George's life is Sunday. On Sunday George looks his best. On Sunday George dresses up. On Sunday, George becomes Emily. Adorned in his wife's discarded dresses, a blond wig and a slathering of make up, George feels at ease in drag. It is during a stint as 'Emily' that one of