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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Orion (17 April 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752846205
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752846200
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 16 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 593,598 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The launch party for Hello Bunny Alice was held at The Seven Stars pub on Carey Street on Tuesday 15 April. The two 'bar maids' needed no encouragement to wear their fabulous racy bunny girl costumes for the evening. The evening was a great success and Crime in Store, who set up a stall in the corner of the pub, sold 40 books. A short story by Laura appeared in YOU magazine which ran on Sunday 13 April, with a good plug for Hello Bunny Alice in the author biography box. Laura has also written a short story for the SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE which will run in mid May. Laura is being interviewed for WRITING MAGAZINE to coincide with publication. Laura and her gorgeous dog Freeway were photographed and interviewed for THE SUNDAY TIMES Style section feature entitled'We're So In Love' which ran on 6 April. HELLO BUNNY ALICE has been reviewedin OK magazine (6th April issue) and THE LITERARY REVIEW (5 April) with morereviews to follow in the national press. 'Laura Wilson's Hello Bunny Alice is both a striking evocation of sixties showbiz life and a tense woman-in-peril thriller... Wilson's strengths have always been in the delineation of her characters and in giving them distinctive voices. Here, she handles her plot deftly, too, seamlessly switching between scenes set in the sixties and scenesset in the increasingly claustrophobic Oxford farmhouse... Hello Bunny Aliceis engrossing and thrilling.' Peter Guttridge THE OBSERVER 'Wilson remains afine fluent writer, following no one, marking out her own patch.' LITERARY REVIEW 'As with her first book A Little Death, we have a small cast of characters and the story is told by gracefully taking the reader backwards and forwards between present and past. The building of suspense is very skilful, and as the story unfolds, so the chilling menace creeps up on you and increases with every new revelation. This is a brilliant piece of writing and highly recommended.' MYSTERY WOMEN April 03 'Wilson writes in the first person, in an intimate and natural style. The menace is powerfully managed and the terror of being trapped with someone by turns deranged and dangerous is vividly recounted. The mysteries mount up: what drove Lenny to suicide and how will Alice survive? A breathtaking read from a distinctive writer.' MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS 'Wilson's prose is clear, her pace fast-moving, while Alice is a triumph.' GOOD BOOK GUIDE 'Laura Wilson's most frightening book to date.' PRIZES magazine. EVENTS Laura will be appearing at a number of bookshops throughout the coming months to promote HELLO BUNNY ALICE, on her own and as part of The Unusual Suspects. She will also be attending the annual BODIES IN THE BOOKSHOP at H

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In 1967 Bunny Girl Alice Jones met Lenny Maxted - one half of the brilliant comic duo, Maxted and Flowers - and fell deeply in love with him. But, like so many great comics, Lenny had a dark side. Their love affair ended when Alice found his body hanging from a beam in a Wiltshire cottage. Seven years after his death, in the long hot summer of 1976, Alice is leading a quiet, almost reclusive life in an Oxfordshire farmhouse when, out of the blue, Lenny's partner, Jack Flowers, turns up on her doorstep. Alice has not seen him since Lenny's funeral, but her surprise and pleasure turn into an all too familiar sense of unease when she discovers that he is distressed and drinking heavily. At the same time a car containing human remains is fished out of a Wiltshire lake...
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is a brilliant piece of writing., 26 May 2003
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As with Laura's first book 'A Little Death', we have a small cast of characters, and the story is told by gracefully taking the reader backwards and forwards between present and past. The building of the suspense is very skilful, and as the story unfolds, so the chilling menace creeps up on you and increases with every new revelation. This is a brilliant piece of writing and highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars First excursion into not always palatable Wilson territory, 8 Feb 2010
This review is from: Hello Bunny Alice (Paperback)
My first reading of Laura Wilson's writing reveals a writer whose storytelling is smooth and compelling and eminently readable, unfolding like a private entry to a diary.
The quirkly title, which is what drew me to the book in the first place in the library, quickly makes sense when you find out after the first few pages that "Bunny Alice" is a former Playboy Bunny in the swinging 60s in London. Alison (aka: Alice)is the bereaved fiancee of Lenny, a household name of a double act paralleling contemporary comics like Morecambe and Wise. As the story opens she is living in virtual seclusion on a small farm in Oxfordshire in the 70s surrounded only by her animals.
Skeletons soon begin come out of the closet with the unexpected arrival of Jack Flowers, her husbands former partner, on her doorstep and the menace of the resulting action is nicely paced as Wilson cleverly uses to great effect in the first person narrative the device of flashbacks to explain actions and motive. While I might agree somewhat with one previous reviewer's comment that Alice seems a bit of a limp spaghetti she is a product of the times, and if you think about it a probable virtual 'flower child' of the day, from a single parent family, supremely unconcerned about the future, sexually free and only living for the day.
Wilson's story proves quite cleverly claustrophobic, as much of story takes place in a single location, as if on a small stage, and set in a time frame before the advances in modern technology, a time even I remember well, and when the only valid forms of communication were the postal service and single home telephones or coinboxes. This is an important and necessary device to what subsequently unfolds, the ultimate dissolution of several characters, and when there are only a handful in the entire story that is somewhat chilling and adroit storytelling. Well done Laura!
Highly recommended.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 2 Sep 2009
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I was rather looking forward to reading this book (picked up from a charity stall) as I could relate to the time in which it is set, and found my interest pricked by the synopsis on the jacket cover. Who wouldn't be interested in getting the lowdown on the Playboy Club? However, I simply could NOT relate to our heroine, who lay down and allowed herself to be treated badly by the men in her life at every opportunity. What a wuss. Give me a strong, no-nonsense female protagonist every time!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Tense dark thriller.
This is the first Laura Wilson book I have read and after completing this tense dark thriller, I certainly will be trying more of her novels. Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2004 by Rich Milligan

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