Book description
Lily's epilepsy means she's used to seeing the world in terms of angles
-- you look at every surface, you weigh up every corner, and you think
of your head slamming into it -- but what would she be like without her
sharp edges? Prickly, spiky, up-front honest and down-to-earth
practical, Lily is thirty, and life's not easy but she gets by. Needing
no-one and asking for nothing, it's just her and her epilepsy: her
constant companion. But then her mother -- who Lily's not seen for years
-- dies, and Lily is drawn back into a world she thought she'd long
since left behind. Forced to renegotiate the boundaries of her life, she
realises she has alot to learn -- about relationships, about the past,
and about herself -- and some difficult decisions ahead of her. 'An
eviscerating debut novel . . . Its fast, furious plot, kaleidoscopic
imagery, blunt observations and a wry, ingenuous, hugely compassionate
heroine make Electricity a breathtaking assault on the senses' Guardian
'An energetic debut, bristling with talent . . . It's black, savage,
funny and rather uncomfortably haunting' The Times 'Ray Robinson's
Electricity is a thorny, uncompromising novel, with attitude. It is also
-- thanks to Lily O'Connor, its sharp-edged, hard-living, tough-talking
narrator -- mesmerising, uplifting and unexpectedly tender' JIM CRACE
Ray Robinson was born in North Yorkshire in 1971. He trained as a
graphic designer and spent many years living in Eastern Europe and
Scandinavia. An award-winning short story writer, he is currently
writing his second novel. He lives in London.
