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- Published: 5 May 2022
- ISBN: 9781529198379
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: Audio Download
The Bloater
The brilliantly original rediscovered classic comedy of manners
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- Published: 5 May 2022
- ISBN: 9781529198379
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: Audio Download
The Bloater delights us by its wit, relish, and new-minted metaphors
Daily Telegraph
Brittle, spry, spiky, amusing, a comedy of love... an original and distinctive flavour
Sunday Times
[Tonks'] novels are valuable curios...of their time. They read like a strange hybrid of Muriel Spark and Beryl Bainbridge with a dash of Joe Orton
William Boyd, The Times
What a charismatic writer Rosemary Tonks is. The Bloater is lively and witty with some brilliant metaphors and descriptions, and so atmospheric. I really enjoyed it
Katy Wix
It is about flirtation as a method of self-organization, and a crush as a method of self-torture. All of The Bloater, however-every single sentence-is funny
New Yorker