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the girl who was going to die

The Girl Who Was Going to Die
Cape UK, 2008

'Bang up to date and blackly funny' – The Times

'Glyn Maxwell is already known as a poet and playwright, and both his wit and talent for compression are evident throughout this constantly funny satire...He has a wonderful ear for dialogue'
– The Times Literary Supplement

'Acerbic and unsettling...it is a daring medley of emotional seriousness and ebullient farce, satire and burlesque, postmodernist gamesplaying and Hollywood melodrama' – Adam Thorpe, The Guardian

'A searing indictment of modern culture...the dialogue-driven prose is linguistically pioneering and distinctive, keeping the reader gripped and entertained while never letting up in its intensity' – The List