Author:Georgina Hammick

It's August and Fun Week for the kids in Bethnel Green, where forty-one-year-old Dexter Bucknell, sometime publisher turned freelance copy editor, is hoping to inveigle his live-in lover, Moy, into marrying him and being a mother to his two young sons. While Moy escapes daily to her Mile End studio, Dexter is left at home to juggle work and debts and domestic chores. Further complicating their lives are Dexter's furiously letter-writing ex-wife, his mother, Moy's schizophrenic brother, and the unavoidable decision Dexter has to confront about his future.
MacLaverty is a master of many moods and this genial, intelligent novel finds him at his best
—— Sunday TelegraphA brilliant novel
—— Daily TelegraphA zestfully funny novel of male adolescence
—— Sunday TimesNovels of this quality should never end
—— Irish IndependentTender, funny and gripping novel… The Anatomy School draws pictures in the imagination, and offers a lesson of the most enjoyable kind. Perhaps one of MacLaverty’s best and most exuberant books.
—— Belfast TelegraphEmbrace your inner Goth with this atmospheric shiver fest.
—— ElleThrilling stuff
—— BRich prose and a twisting plot make for a gripping read.
—— Sainsbury's MagazineLike Donna Tartt’s "The Secret History" or a good film noir . . . Jane’s low-key narration has just the right tone to keep readers hooked
—— People magazineThe strength of 'The Lake of Dead Languages' is a silken prose that lures the reader into Goodman’s . . . story of murder, suicide . . . revenge, and madness
—— The Washington Post Book WorldPart suspense, part coming-of-age, and all-enthralling . . . A book that needs the roar of a fire to ward off its psychic chill
—— The Denver Post






