Anthony McCarten’s debut novel, Spinners, won international acclaim, and was followed by The English Harem and the award winning Death of a Superhero, all three books being translated into many languages. McCarten has also written twelve stage plays, including the worldwide success Ladies’ Night, which won France’s Molière Prize, the Meilleure Pièce Comique, in 2001. Also a film-maker, he has thrice adapted his own plays or novels into feature films which he directed himself.
He makes it all look so simple, but his classical, direct technique
belies his daring choice of material. There is not a false
sentiment or conventional genuflection in this book... Everyone who
reads McCarten's generous, humane, funny and moving novel will come
away enriched.
*Timothy Mo*
McCarten's novel hovers between indignant satire and engaging
comedy of manners while sounding a clarion call against the bigotry
and intolerance in our society.
*Sunday Times*
Anthony McCarten dares to speak of English multiculturalism in the
satirical tone that most native writers keep mute.
*The Observer*
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