Review
Praise for 'The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia': 'A truly witty page turner packed with recognition and intelligence - both moving and utterly hilarious' Helen Lederer Praise for Sarah May and her books: 'The best book I have read in years!quite incredible.' Time Out 'Sarah May's descriptive skills are excellent and she has a wonderfully observant eye for detail.' Independent 'An extraordinary novel!This is writing at the level of myth: fully formed, recognisable, unique.' Guardian 'May's achievements are mildly miraculous. She is a novelist through and through.' Independent on Sunday 'A compelling work of fiction.' Spectator
Product Description
Do you know what your neighbours get up to behind closed doors? And more to the point, do you want to know? "The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia" is a darkly comic portrayal of marriage, relationships, neighbours and Suburbia. Welcome to Littlehaven, where serving pineapple with cottage cheese at a dinner party is the very height of glamorous sophistication; where sulky teenagers join CND and obsess as much about the threat of nuclear war as they do about their latest acne outbreak; and where missing a Green Goddess-led aerobics session is the true definition of disaster. "The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia" follows the intertwined stories of the inhabitants of Pollards Close in love and out of love, in marriage and in flagrante, in health and in sickness, in work and out of work, in triumph and in tragedy. "The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia" is a black-hearted soap opera, a smart, sharp study of obsession, paranoia and class, set against an all-too-recognisable backdrop of the decade that taste forgot.
