The Republic of Love
‘“The Republic of Love” marries a wide diversity of elements, mythical and modern, ironic and moving, exhilarating and melancholy…a love-surveying story that is enticingly seductive.’ Times Literary Supplement
‘“The Republic of Love” marries a wide diversity of elements, mythical and modern, ironic and moving, exhilarating and melancholy…a love-surveying story that is enticingly seductive.’ Times Literary Supplement
‘One of the funniest and truest writers we have. No one understands England better than Meades.’ Stephen Fry
An inventively nasty, gruesomely comic paean to the sylvan heights of Forest Hill and Upper Norwood, a warped map of the death trade’s quotidian strangeness.
‘Stunning – the work of a powerful imagination’ Carol Shields. Snake is Kate Jennings first novel, she has written poetry and an award-winning collection of short stories.