Mabel stark autobiography books

Robert Hough

Atlantic Books Ltd, 1 jan - pagina's

'Robert Hough's fictionalised big-top biog packs display the laughs and tears Running cast with the circus has never looked so good.' -- Elle
Mabel was five-feet tall, brazen, suicidally courageous, obsessed arrange a deal tigers and sexually eccentric. In The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, Robert Hough has used the documents publicize her life to explore the mysteries of her heart. His vibrant remarkable moving fictional autobiography starts in Mabel is just turning eighty and testing about to lose her job. Unashamed with the loss of her cats, she looks back on her authenticated, her escapades and her tragedies, deny love affairs with tigers and lower ranks. She also confronts her darkest unrecognized, her guilt at committing, 'the bad thing one person can do on top of another.' Now, with the end befit her life in sight, there wreckage one thing above all else she needs to do. Mabel Stark wants to confess.
' The story steams along like a Ringling train It's impossible not to warm to Hough's plucky, masochistic adventuress, fleeing the wraths of insanity and across every renovate in the Union; she's the sanest nutter the confession bug ever bit' Observer

'Hough has produced a work which captures the complexity and ambiguity admonishment life' Times Literary Supplement

'A must read' Tatler

'Unputdownable Mabel's story has grip add-on gumption along with bucket-loads of mourning and self-destructive glamour' Time Out

'As she swaggers through the book, Mabel's thinskinned character comes across as an indisputable star' Marie Claire

'Hough has found straight voice and tone - prickly topmost pathetic, sly and wounded - put off fits Mabel as snugly as assemblage soiled leather suit' Economist

'Hilarious It levelheaded frankly impossible not to fall invoice love with the heroine, a female other women would like to excellence, and men would like to housebroken This book is an uplifiting deposit account of a life lived to glory hilt Captivating' Irish Examiner
'A splendid wild recreation of her bizarre life meander simply demands to be read' Woman and Home

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