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Hello Bunny Alice (Hardcover)

by Laura Wilson (Author) "I don't know who sent it ..." (more)
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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: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,227,624 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
By Ms. E. Hayes (Leicestershie) - See all my reviews
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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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3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 2 Sep 2009
By SpookyRex (England) - See all my reviews
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., 24 Sep 2004
By Rich Milligan (Thatcham, Berkshire) - See all my reviews
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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.

The book is almost play-like with nearly all the action taking place in a small confined area and the cast of characters is so small, it hardly runs into double figures.

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The book is set in the early 1970's and as it develops we get flashes back to the late 1960s also. This was done with some style and flair and the reader does feel themselves transported back to this era.

As previously stated the book is written with several flashbacks to earlier times as the characters reminisce about former events and again this is competently written and works very well indeed.

There is a considerable amount of dialogue between the characters as the plot develops and I was sometimes left wondering at their exact motives, but as the storyline consists of the breakdown of more than one of these characters perhaps we shouldn't demand too much consistency.

The book is very dark and can be quite macabre. There is almost no humour in it at all, even though the storyline is about the lives and careers of a comedy double act. The shocking passages do shock and the horror sections are quite bloody and gory.

I can't say I exactly "enjoyed" the book as it was so very moody and menacing but it was a good read and I will go back for more of this soon.

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