The horrifying and entertaining tale of an unrepentant bourgeois serial killer, Morris Duckworth, and his adventures in Veronese high society.
Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at
Cambridge and Harvard. He lives in Milan.
Parks is the acclaimed author of novels, non-fiction and essays,
including Europa, A Season with Verona, Teach Us to Sit Still,
Italian Ways and Italian Life. He has been shortlisted for the
Booker Prize and has won many awards for both his work in English
and his translations from the Italian, which include works by
Alberto Moravia, Italo Calvino, Roberto Calasso, Antonio Tabucchi
and Niccol Machiavelli.
Sharp, funny and satirical… This is one to relish
*Guardian*
Neatly written, full of calamitous moments in which the comedy is
suddenly elbowed aside by genuine emotion
*Spectator*
Hovering adroitly between tragedy and farce...a good novel to
savour by the pool in Tuscany this summer
*The Times*
Duckworth is a worthy heir to a tradition of seductive, cultured
literary monsters that includes Humbert Humbert, Hannibal Lecter
and John Lanchester's Tarquin Winot
*Sunday Times*
mordant thriller
*Telegraph*
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