Mud. Stories of Sex and Love

The new book by Michèle Roberts (Reader, I Married Him) contains again several Jane Eyre references:

Mud
Stories of Sex and Love
Michèle Roberts
Little, Brown Book Group
Virago Press
ISBN: 1844086259
ISBN-13: 9781844086252
Publication Date: 03 Jun 2010
Format: Paperback

A jilted lover skirts the edges of time and place as she walks the streets of London at night; a woman returns to the scene of her honeymoon without her husband; a bereft daughter traces her relationship with her mother as she slowly packs up a house in the aftermath of death. In this brilliant collection of intimate and intense stories, Michèle Roberts takes us to nineteenth century Venice, 1970s England, modern-day France and beyond. Here too are Tristram and Isolde with a twist; George Sand, sick in Venice with her unfaithful lover; and the bitter maid taking care of young Adèle: both forced out of Rochester's home to make way for the passions of Jane Eyre...With her subversive, often witty, exploration of women's desires, memory, grief, love and betrayal, Michèle Roberts demonstrates once again why she remains one of Britain's most invigorating writers.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY:
Michèle Roberts, poet, essayist, and author of fourteen works of fiction, was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France in 2000.

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