Little Gods (B) Anne Richards

An adventure, a black comedy, a fairy tale of sorts and a romance, Little Gods tells the story of larger-than-life Jean Clocker, whose birth challenges the very balance of nature and whose body resists all attempts to contain it. A girl - and later, woman - of unusual size and strength, fitting in is never an option for Jean, but it takes the chaos of war - and, later, America - to persuade her to fully appreciate her extraordinary stature. ''A gorgeous, sprawling novel and a rich, colourful tale'' Metro ''Four hundred and thirty-one pages of glory'' HELEN OYEYEMI ''A wonderfully inventive ode to being different'' FT ''Rich, gaudy, clever and irrepressible'' ALI SMITH ''A startlingly original first novel by a remarkable new talent'' Independent See more