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`Justine Kilkerr tells Marnie's story with great emotional precision and subtlety, as she journeys through the no-man's-land between reality and dreams...a delightful and whimsical novel, a most promising debut.' --The Tablet
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An imaginative, haunting and beautifully written first novel, about an unusual friendship, from a brilliant new writer
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I loved this novel. I read it over a year ago and it has stayed with me all that time. I read this as it was nominated for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize. I've just read one of the novels which jointly won the prize that year (The Canal) and found it disappointing and forgettable. In my view, Kilkerr's novel is greatly superior and should have won! Advice for Strays is definitely one of the best novels I've read in years and I'd thoroughly recommend it. It is touching, beautiful, inventive, dark, humorous, and wonderful.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This is a really original gentle story. Did you have an imaginary friend when you were a child? Then this could be the book for you..........but, was your friend a lion? And what happens when you're grown up if things get so bad your imaginary friend reappears?
I can assure the more nervous reader that no imaginary animals were harmed in the realisation of this splendid book. Enjoy!
I can assure the more nervous reader that no imaginary animals were harmed in the realisation of this splendid book. Enjoy!
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It's a rare person who doesn't need a little advice now and again but if I have any advice for Cape the publishers of 'Advice for Strays' by Justine Kilkerr #also known fondly as 'sniffy jenkins' on twitter# it's this, don't tell us this book is about mystery because contrary to the hype there isn't much mystery for the reader to gnaw at and entangle themselves in within the pages of this 'first novel'. Here is a story about fragility, fear. It bleeds, it weeps, as it weaves the bruised strands and delicate colours of memory into its journey. Marnie's father has disappeared along with the neighbourhood cats, that's quite a bit to chew on but it's no mystery.
You will, dear reader, hover from precipice to precipice as if following a butterfly through some dark and scary canyon, knowing you can only go on. Jessica and Shuilie are 'fronting it out' as Marnie gets lost deeper and deeper in childhood. Jericho is back.
Advice for Strays mauls you with its honesty, its loneliness, its need. The world in which you are drawn into is like the safe warm place under the duvet, where you huddle with Marnie occasionally braving the menacing breath of Jericho to peek out and see if daylight has come yet. For me this is a story about Jericho and partly, about damage and abandonment.
Buy this book and get your trumpets out it's time to storm the castle!
You will, dear reader, hover from precipice to precipice as if following a butterfly through some dark and scary canyon, knowing you can only go on. Jessica and Shuilie are 'fronting it out' as Marnie gets lost deeper and deeper in childhood. Jericho is back.
Advice for Strays mauls you with its honesty, its loneliness, its need. The world in which you are drawn into is like the safe warm place under the duvet, where you huddle with Marnie occasionally braving the menacing breath of Jericho to peek out and see if daylight has come yet. For me this is a story about Jericho and partly, about damage and abandonment.
Buy this book and get your trumpets out it's time to storm the castle!
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advice for strays: read it. really.
Others have described bits and pieces already. This is a lovely book. To be savored, slowly. Over time, if you can. Read more
Published 23 months ago
Eccentric, original and thought-provoking
This book is built on that rare thing - a really original idea. 'Advice for Strays' is about a girl called Marnie whose schizophrenic father has disappeared, and in her worry and... Read more
Published on 10 May 2010 by U. Sinha
An incredible debut novel...
I'm so immensely proud of Justine. Right from the first chapter I was just awestruck that someone I know wrote something so beautiful that resonates so deeply with my own... Read more
Published on 19 April 2010 by Angela Black
Wonderful!
You people in the UK have no idea what a gem you have here! Many of us in the States have had to have this book shipped to us royally for the literary treat Justine writes -... Read more
Published on 4 April 2010 by Shawna L. Thompson
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