- Paperback: 422 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins (5 Feb 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006511775
- ISBN-13: 978-0006511779
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11.8 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 260,472 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘Clever, original, perceptive and preposterous… highly enjoyable’
Hampstead & Highgate Gazette
‘Hooks until the final twist’
Woman & Home
‘ZELDA’S CUT holds the attention because the cravings it describes are real’
Helen Dunmore
‘Gregory’s extraordinarily engrossing novel examines the human capacity for self-deceit and explores the risks we should take to be our true selves… a triumph’
Daily Mail
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Delicious combination of confused identities, personal dramas and moral dilemmas in a contemporary chiller from one of our most outstanding novelists.
For years, Isobel Latimer has composed serious novels for serious people, but to dwindling acclaim and ever-more dwindling gain. Now her husband is ill and she must carry their financial burden alone, and in secret.
But if the public don’t want careful moral fables any longer, why not provide an outrageous tale of sex and satanism, and an author to match? The incomparable, uncontrollable Zelda de Vere is born.
What began with the best of intentions snowballs into a disorienting blur of passion, gender-bending, loss of innocence, to betrayal and beyond. Isobel Latimer might feel she’s on the brink of losing everything, but what would Zelda do?
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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Bordering on the unbelievable,
By A Customer
This review is from: Zelda's Cut (Paperback)
Zelda is the alter- ego of Isobel Latimer, a quiet and self-effacing author whose life revolves around her husband's ill health and their financial problems. By becoming Zelda, and breaking into rauchy romantic thrillers, as opposed to her serious work, she and her agent, Troy, begin a clandestine series of rendezvous' around the country, promoting Zelda's books, and at the same time, start having an affair. So far, so good. But then it careers off out of control, with episodes of cross-dressing, gender transformation, and exactly who is role playing Zelda whilst dressed in the erotic underwear becomes less predictable. The ending, which I won't spoil, stretches belief a bit too far for me on many fronts, but like all Philippa Gregory's books, it's a very readable, if far fetched, novel.
33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Sleazy and strains credulity,
By A Customer
This review is from: Zelda's Cut (Paperback)
Some of Philippa Gregory's novels I love - A Respectable Trade, The Wise Woman for example. Some, however, are mediocre and this is one of them. Literary novelist Isobel Latimer desperately needs money to keep a roof above the heads of herself and her ailing husband. So she writes a bonkbuster and creates her alter-ego 'Zelda Vere.' The story has some interesting plot devices, but I was unable to suspend my disbelief to properly enjoy them. I could just about cope with the fact that given a wig, expensive clothes and makeup, Isobel could get away with being Zelda Vere when she had to...but what happens at the TV studio when there's a quick change mid-programme (being vague here to avoid spoilers) is utterly stupid. How COULD anyone FAIL to notice the change? Come off it! Gregory's comments on Isobel finding the notion of incest a turn on were interesting as she has covered the theme of incest several times in previous novels and it seems to be something that fascinates her as an author. The Other Boleyn Girl was rife with it. I thought that the ending was abrupt and rushed and it left several threads either dangling or very loosely tied. Bottom line: Philippa Gregory is a superb author when she's on top form. Unfortunately she must have been having an off day when she wrote Zelda's Cut.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Can you handle it??,
This review is from: Zelda's Cut (Hardcover)
Zelda's Cut was an erotic and hypnotic novel by this amazing writer. Very different form her more well known work such as The Queen's Fool or The other Boylen Girl. This book had my attention from beginning to end. With twists and turns you would never expect. Fall into the world of a struggling writer as she finds a side of herself she never even knew existed. Only take this journey if you can handle what she finds??
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