Mercy Alexander
05 January 2012Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
A photo shoot in the Thames, playing dead: a corpse for the gallery walls. This is Mercy Alexander’s work. Enigmatic, glamorous, beautiful — not many people know the real Mercy. She’s been an image far too long. But Rose knows, her friend from childhood, her soulmate. A prostitute.
Then Rose meets a terrible death and Mercy must confront what she...
Details
05 January 2012288 pages
9781447219545Imprint: Picador
Reviews
‘Tiffin has a great sense of atmosphere. His moody descriptions of London and its river make this more than just an intriguing debut’ Time Out
‘Sex, death, love, beauty, corruption, evil, tragedy, tarts with hearts, ruthless pimps, inscrutable undertakers, oh, and fry-ups and art, too’ The List
‘A stylish, edgy noir thriller which explores the boundaries of artifice, beauty and the power of the image. The city, a brooding London, is almost a character in its own right in this vivid and intriguing novel’ Manchester Evening News
‘The images George Tiffin creates are striking, and the prose is resonant’ Times Literary Supplement
