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Duffy is at her most powerful with her merciless, wickedly accurate observations on the minutiae of modern metropolitan relationships of all persuasions . . . an irresistible delight (DIVA )
A darkly post-modern fairy-tale for the This Life generation . . . A wise, witty, wicked book (SCOTSMAN )
An intelligent piece of writing that forces us to re-examine sex and love in today's society (EXPRESS )
A darkly post-modern fairy-tale for the This Life generation . . . A wise, witty, wicked book (SCOTSMAN )
An intelligent piece of writing that forces us to re-examine sex and love in today's society (EXPRESS )
Scotsman
'A darkly post-modern fairy-tale for the This Life generation ... A wise, witty, wicked book'
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
`Singling Out The Couples' is a magical modern fairytale. A princess from a land far beyond the tube system arrives in London. Cushla isn't your average hard done by Princess, this Princess if different for she has no heart. IN having no heart the one thing that Cushla hates above all other things is love, and in particular couples in love.
She sets out to break these couples up in anyway she can using her birth given magic. We watch as she separates first Jonathan and Sally (by sleeping with Jonathan), second Martin and Josh (by becoming one of the men's first female lover) and thirdly Philip and Frances (by finding Frances's inner lesbian) it's a metro-sexual fable in its own way. However in the land that is far away not all is well and the king and queen send out her brother to stop her wild antics and to stop her from growing a heart. Does it like a fairytale of old have a happy ending? You will have to read it and find out and seriously you should read it.
Stella Duffy has a way with words, it cannot be put any other way. I don't mean pretentiously I mean she seems to love words and uses them freely and quite unashamedly which is how it should be, it read slightly like poetry in its own way. That and the mixture of a fairytale is quite a heady mix. I am really surprised that this hasn't been optioned for TV as I can imagine it making a great three part show (maybe I should get working on that) for winter weekend Sundays.
If you like to be taken to far away lands seeing London through strange stranger's eyes like I do, then this is a book for you. I enjoyed it no end.
She sets out to break these couples up in anyway she can using her birth given magic. We watch as she separates first Jonathan and Sally (by sleeping with Jonathan), second Martin and Josh (by becoming one of the men's first female lover) and thirdly Philip and Frances (by finding Frances's inner lesbian) it's a metro-sexual fable in its own way. However in the land that is far away not all is well and the king and queen send out her brother to stop her wild antics and to stop her from growing a heart. Does it like a fairytale of old have a happy ending? You will have to read it and find out and seriously you should read it.
Stella Duffy has a way with words, it cannot be put any other way. I don't mean pretentiously I mean she seems to love words and uses them freely and quite unashamedly which is how it should be, it read slightly like poetry in its own way. That and the mixture of a fairytale is quite a heady mix. I am really surprised that this hasn't been optioned for TV as I can imagine it making a great three part show (maybe I should get working on that) for winter weekend Sundays.
If you like to be taken to far away lands seeing London through strange stranger's eyes like I do, then this is a book for you. I enjoyed it no end.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The plot is basically this .... Cushla, the fairy princess without a heart (the compassion fairy was late) has come to earth with one mission .... to break up loving relationships. To do this she seduces one of the parties to a relationship and we, the reader, get to watch the demise of that relationship and all the guilt, hatred and desparation that follows. Hillarious, with plenty of perceptive observations as to the nature of relationships today. Read this book, especially if you've just come out of a relationship and are feeling, how shall we say, slightly twisted.
Format:Paperback
A beautiful princess, a handsome prince. a king and a queen. Sounds like your typical fairy story? Well this definately isn't! This is the story of a Princess without a heart, who decides to break up three happy couples that she meets. But then her heart begins to grow, and the Prince is hot on her trail. Will she get her comeuppance? Will she learn to love? You'll be pleasantly surprised by this rather nasty tale.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Disappointing
A big disappointment as I've enjoyed other novels by Duffy. (Mouth of Babes, The Room of Lost Things)
Singling out the couples is a modern fairy tale that deals with... Read more
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Published on 20 Feb 2009 by Lou Ice
must read
This is a frothy hot chocolate of a book. This book contains all the elements of the modern World. Plus it's a good old fashion story tale about good and evil. Read more
Published on 11 Nov 1999
I love Forrest Gump
This is my favourite novel by my favourite author. It tells the tale of an idiot who is kind and sweet at heart. His life is extraordinary and I was gripped from the start. Read more
Published on 6 Jun 1999
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