Author:Olivia Manning
Pretty, brave and eighteen, Ellie has come to London in search of adventure. She soon finds it in Quintin Bellot, the handsome but tired dilettante who finds her a job in fashionable Chelsea. But Quintin, the seducer of one dove, is also the husband of another. And Petta, his once beautiful wife, is fighting back age as fiercely as Ellie is plunging into it.
Olivia Manning has a wonderful and unfailing flair for describing both the atmosphere and the furniture of the world in which her people move
—— ListenerManning writes always with a poet's care for words and it is her usual distinction of style and construction that lifts the novel- far, far above the average run
—— ObserverThe most considerable of our women novelists
—— Anthony BurgessA masterpiece, a heartbreak, a nightlight shining in the dark.
—— Patricia Lockwood, author of No One Is Talking About ThisDevastating. Despite the brutal toll Beaton suffered personally, she has woven from her experience a vast and complex tapestry that captures the humanity of people doing a kind of "dirty work" in which we are all complicit, and it shimmers with grace.
—— Alison Bechdel, author of Fun HomeEngrossing and powerful.
—— GuardianAn exceptionally beautiful book about loneliness, labor, and survival. Beaton is a thoughtful guide through a complex landscape of class and gender, and these pages ache with grief and grace.
—— Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream HouseKate Beaton's comics are rich with quiet revelations, intimate details, and a deadpan, devastating sense of humor. A generous and illuminating book; I suspect it will stay on my mind for a very long time.
—— Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny ValleyDucks is an unforgettable, riveting work. Kate Beaton opens the mind's eye, allowing us to inhabit landscapes and experiences crucial to our time, yet largely unseen. Artful, considered and courageous, Ducks is a landmark work.
—— Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have NothingDucks delivers an immersive, harrowing journey through an industry where the lure of fast money belies darker realities of casual brutality, profound loneliness and soul-cracking isolation. The uneasy echoes of Beaton's story ring well past the the final page. Shattering.
—— Jessica Bruder, author of Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First CenturyHonest, compassionate, and clear-eyed, Ducks is a stunning achievement in storytelling that I will be thinking about for a long time.
—— Jung Yun, author of O BeautifulEngrossing.
—— Irish ExaminerDucks moves into dark territory - including sexual assault - but Beaton... balances light and shade. No place or person is wholly good or bad, not even the oil sands with their dark satanic drills.
—— TelegraphAn astonishing graphic novel/memoir whose precise drawings capture Bechdel's life-long hunt for transcendence through physical exertion.
—— Simon Kuper and Murad Ahmed , Financial Times, *Books of the Year*The biggest event of the year was the return of Alison Bechdel... Bechdel's previous books have made her one of the superstars of graphic fiction, and this funny, perceptive and merciless account shows that...her talent remains undimmed.
—— James Smart , Guardian, *Books of the Year*The Secret to Superhuman Strength... demands to be reread immediately... and does the reader far more good than a Peloton class and a cup of turmeric tea.
—— Rachel Cooke , Observer, *Books of the Year*A joyful book, a feast of colour, wit and ideas about living in ever-changing times
—— Max Liu , iNews, *Books of the Year*The brilliant cartoonist traces her own history of (sometimes obsessive) exercise in this stunning graphic memoir.
—— Bill Hayes , Reader's Digest
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