Seven Tales of Sex and Death - Softcover

Patricia Duncker is the author of three novels, Hallucinating Foucault (1996), James Miranda Barry (1999), and The Deadly Space Between (2002), and a collection of short fiction, Monsieur Shoushana’s Lemon Trees (1997), all available from Picador. She has also published a collection of essays on writing and contemporary literature, Writing on the Wall (2002). She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

"Duncker is a mistress of suspense . . . A febrile, fascinating, disquieting read. It asserts itself for what it is: serious stuff, to be read in one gulp and then mulled over for days." ―Maggie O’Farrell

"A wonderfully engaging and rewarding collection, shot through with wit and perversity." ―Michael Arditti, Independent

"Dark, subversive . . . You will be left reeling." ―Observer

"This collection of stories confirms Patricia Duncker as one of Britain’s leading fiction writers . . . She explores areas of our psyches that we all recognise but mostly choose to ignore. She should be required reading." ―Financial Times

"Confident and bewitching . . . Duncker is forging her own brand of fiction, a sort of gender-bending, intellectually exuberant English-French hybrid." ―Joanna Briscoe, Guardian

"Patricia Duncker writes beautifully with a flamboyant immediacy." ―Sunday Telegraph

"Dark and salacious . . . They capture brilliantly the moment in everyday situations where our minds cease to occupy reality and shift into the fantasy projections of our fervently active imaginations." ―The Times