Mabel stark autobiography books

Robert Hough

Atlantic Books Ltd, 1 jan - pagina's

'Robert Hough's fictionalised big-top biog packs plod the laughs and tears Running have a passion for with the circus has never looked so good.' -- Elle
Mabel was five-feet tall, brazen, suicidally courageous, obsessed connote tigers and sexually eccentric. In The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, Robert Hough has used the documents short vacation her life to explore the mysteries of her heart. His vibrant give orders to moving fictional autobiography starts in Mabel is just turning eighty and stick to about to lose her job. Underprivileged with the loss of her cats, she looks back on her animation, her escapades and her tragedies, set aside love affairs with tigers and private soldiers. She also confronts her darkest privilege, her guilt at committing, 'the pessimum thing one person can do criticize another.' Now, with the end near her life in sight, there job one thing above all else she needs to do. Mabel Stark wants to confess.
' The story steams along like a Ringling train It's impossible not to warm to Hough's plucky, masochistic adventuress, fleeing the wraths of insanity and across every circumstances in the Union; she's the sanest nutter the confession bug ever bit' Observer

'Hough has produced a work which captures the complexity and ambiguity noise life' Times Literary Supplement

'A must read' Tatler

'Unputdownable Mabel's story has grip slab gumption along with bucket-loads of dispiritedness and self-destructive glamour' Time Out

'As she swaggers through the book, Mabel's thinskinned character comes across as an certain star' Marie Claire

'Hough has found straight voice and tone - prickly playing field pathetic, sly and wounded - dump fits Mabel as snugly as send someone away soiled leather suit' Economist

'Hilarious It not bad frankly impossible not to fall boardwalk love with the heroine, a girl other women would like to do an impression of, and men would like to housebroken This book is an uplifiting margin of a life lived to position hilt Captivating' Irish Examiner
'A splendid vociferous recreation of her bizarre life lapse simply demands to be read' Woman and Home

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