'Delightfully subversive I loved it' RED The darkly funny new novel from Polari
Prize-shortlisted author Crystal Jeans inspired in part by Dickens' Great Expectations ...
It's 1924 and the village of Skimpole is full of secrets. When Anastasia's mother dies she
must move in with 'the Aunt' - a writer too fearsome for a first name who lives in a
dilapidated mansion with her dogs. But mysteries abound: who wrote the raunchy love letters she
discovers in the Aunt's bedroom signed 'Big Willy'? Why do the villagers hate the Aunt so
much? And how did Anastasia's father who passed before she was born really die? When the
Aunt's friends arrive at the house one summer wreathed in cigarette smoke and an air of
debauchery Anastasia may be closer to finding answers - but the truth will turn her world
upside down...
