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Review by
 Richard Brown(2839) on 20/02/2004
This is a tour de force. For a debut novel it is astonishing. If you want straight, cosy narrative then buy another book but if you are after witty, imaginative and erudite prose then the Pig is for you. Don’t be deterred by the back cover blurb; it’s not another novel about a hopeless aspiring writer, it’s a formidable fairy story about the power battle between the genders. And don’t let the first few short chapters put you off; a narrative soon emerges with a swinish, battered, bewildered hero called Morgan. Above all, men; don’t go running, even if you are pigs, because there’s much to consider and much that will bring pork belly laughter.
Granville works very hard at her writing. This is a good thing; writing is after all a demanding craft. But it’s also an art and by this I mean that creative pieces must convey something subtle and universal which goes much deeper than the merely mundane. This novel conjures up images and insights which probe far into the unconscious and stir elemental thoughts, some of them uneasy, which seem set to linger.
Flame Books, which describes itself as ‘an ethical publisher who supports new writers’, is to be congratulated on putting its faith into the author. |
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