Author:Kitty Aldridge
In July 1934, Walter Brown went alone to the woodland pond. He saw his girl swimming there. He watched her floating and saw how white her skin was in the green water, her belly, her breasts, her pond-tangled hair. Then she turned over like an otter and dived down. She did not come up again. In July 1969, Sean Matthews finds himself in the very same woodland, where he witnesses an event he later cannot bear to remember. Two boys, growing up in the same village thirty-five years apart, have each seen something they shouldn't.
Hailed by Salman Rushie on the publication of her first novel, Pop, Cryers Hill confirms Kitty Aldridge as a writer of immense talent, possessing the rare gift of enabling us to see the world anew.
A beautifully written, profoundly moving, observantly funny, deeply English novel by one of the most talented prose writers I have read in years
—— Carol Ann Duffy , Daily TelegraphMercurial, deft and wondrous in its sentences and uncanny descriptions...A considerable achievement by a daring writer who's come fully into her own
—— Richard FordKitty Aldridge's language captures the casual brutality of childhood like a butterfly in a net
—— Independent[An] excellent pastoral novel
—— Laura Macauley , Time OutAldridge herself loads the novel with verbal twists and turns that leave its texture as ridged, layered and undulating as the Chilterns themselves
—— Boyd Tonkin , Independent[The] carefully observed, spirited portraits form much of the considerable charm of this powerful, slow-burning second novel
—— Sunday TelegraphThe narrative, a DeLillo-like, pellet - sized series of vignettes, rings true in its evocation of the paranoid weirdness of office life
—— ArenaA comic and creepy debut novel...Park transforms the banal into the eerie
—— New Yorkersketches so expertly; if you like this genre, he gets the tone just right
—— William Leith , Evening StandardPark's eye for the minutiae of office life is sharp... This is as funny as Seinfeld
—— Brandon Robshaw , The Independent on SundayChilling, compulsive, and hilarious
—— Elle, 'Read of the Month'P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century
—— Sebastian FaulksSublime comic genius
—— Ben EltonQuite simply, the master of comic writing at work
—— Jane MooreTo pick up a Wodehouse novel is to find oneself in the presence of genius - no writer has ever given me so much pure enjoyment
—— John Julius NorwichCompulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour!
—— Lindsey DavisThe Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon
—— Kathy LetteWitty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny
—— Arabella WeirThe funniest writer ever to put words to paper
—— Hugh LaurieThe greatest comic writer ever
—— Douglas AdamsP.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century
—— Sebastian FaulksSublime comic genius
—— Ben EltonYou don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour
—— Stephen FryA virtuoso performance...This is a collection of stories that will be re-reading exceptionally well, like an album of brilliant songs you keep wanting to hear again
—— Brandom Robshaw , Independent on SundayFunny and furious, Kennedy's tales of floundering marriages and domestic disappointment follow an anarchic path of their own
—— IndependentKennedy's superlative work always attracts admiration
—— Lesley McDowell , Herald
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