Edward Carey

Oct 13, 2024 | bigissue.com | Edward Carey

Books The global pandemic inspired the playwright, illustrator and author's new novel about a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English theatre by: Edward Carey Back then, noses had been made illegal. Nor were mouths permitted. Everyone wore a mask. Looking out of a window at those people keeping their distances it was very clear their faces had been censured. As if these were only partial humans that walked about beyond our homes. Look at all those half-heads.

Oct 3, 2024 | myweekly.co.uk | Linda Hill |Edward Carey |Allison Hay

REVIEWED BY LINDA HILLCursed as a baby, 12-year-old Edith Holler may never leave the Holler Theatre in Norwich or it will literally fall down. Living vicariously through stories about Norwich, Edith writes a play about Mawther Meg who was said to have used the blood of Norwich’s children to make the tasty local delicacy Beetle Spread. But truth is stranger than fiction…Edith Holler: book review & synopsisWow.

Oct 3, 2024 | bookanista.com | Edward Carey

Sometime in the fourteenth century (during the time of Julian the anchorite), Norwich was overcome by a great plague of beetles. The beetles, which are especially common in the flat, damp lands of East Anglia, are larger in this part of the world. An ordinary deathwatch beetle grows up to a half inch in length, but here East Anglian deathwatches have been known to reach near two inches. And these beetles threatened to devour the city, which was then mostly made of wood.

Oct 3, 2024 | uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Edward Carey

'An extraordinary achievement' A. L. KennedyEdward Carey's witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse – and the mysterious figure who threatens its very survival. Norwich, 1901. Edith Holler spends her days among the eccentric denizens of the Holler Theatre, warned by her domineering father that the playhouse will literally tumble down if she should ever leave.

Sep 10, 2024 | waterstones.com | Edward Carey |A. K. Blakemore

Norwich, 1901. Twelve year old Edith Holler spends her days among the eccentric denizens of the Holler Theatre, warned by her domineering father that the playhouse will literally tumble down if she ever leaves. Fascinated by tales of the city she knows only from afar, Edith writes a play of her own about Mawther Meg, a monstrous figure said to have used the blood of children to make the local delicacy, Beetle Spread.