Book description
The queen of the black-hearted soap opera is back!
Welcome to the upwardly mobile Prendergast Road…
On Prendergast Road, deep in Nappy Valley, among olive trees in
terracotta, lower fuel emissions, Lithuanian prostitutes, teenage drug
dealers, stalkers and soaring house prices, five desperate women wait…
The progeny of the IVF generation is ready to start school and only one
of them is destined to get a place in Nappy Valley's most oversubscribed
cradle of learning. How far will these women go to get that place?
Follow Kate Hunter into the depths of her impeccably honed life, as she
struggles to maintain the façade of perfection. When exactly did life
become a life class? Is happiness overrated? Is it just possible that
beneath the flawless sheen of her friends' and neighbours' amazingly
trouble-free lives, beneath the freshly-ironed shirts and home-grown
veg, lie the same half-truths, the same uncertainties and the same
desperation to keep up with the Joneses…?
Sarah May is an intimate observer of society (AKA curtain-twitcher of
the highest order) and her novel is an hilariously dark-hearted soap
opera of our everyday lives. In a society that always strives to be more
organic, less carbon-polluting, more virtuous than any other, 'The Rise
and Fall of the Domestic Diva' is a breath of fresh air (imported from
the mountains of Nepal and filtered organically for purity, of course. A
snip at only £6. 99.). Praise for The Rise and Fall of a Domestic Diva:
'A brilliant tragic-comic writer having fun with our obsession with
image, grooming and all things organic'
Glamour
'Sarah May's witty sometimes acerbic observations are hilarious and
accurate, making this a welcome relief from the supermum brigade'
Sun
Praise for The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia:
'May's shrewd sideways glance makes this a novel moving and menacing by
turns' Observer
'Sarah May has a rare talent for melding the farcical with the tragic,
and has produced a novel which - but for an ending worthy of Tom Sharpe
- is a scathingly successful piece of social commentary' Daily Mail
'Like Mike Leigh directing Desperate Housewives; a brilliantly 1980s
suburban drama' Elle Magazine Sarah May is an intimate observer of
society (AKA curtain-twitcher of the highest order). She is the author
of four previous novels: The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia, The
Nudist Colony, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award;
Spanish City and The Internationals. She lives in London with her
theatre director husband and their two children.
