Sarah May: War on the home front
17th Nov 2006, 01:55 GMT
It's hard to think of a young novelist more difficult to pigeonhole than Sarah May. At the age of 26 she burst onto the literary scene with a bold futuristic debut, The Nudist Colony (1999). Next came Spanish City, (2002), a historical novel set in a northern seaside resort, followed a year later by The Internationals, a shrewd political satire debunking Western involvement in Kosovo. Now, the genre-hopping May has once more defied expectation with a deliberately kitsch domestic comedy lampooning the Thatcher years.
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