Mrs Caliban (Faber Editions)

<b>The amphibious cult classic: a magical </b><b>tale of a suburban housewife's affair with a frogman ...</b><br>'Disturbing but seductive ... Wonderful.' <b>Margaret Atwood</b><br>'Perfect.' <b>Max Porter</b><br>'Still outpaces, out-weirds, and out-romances anything today.' <b>Marlon James</b><br>'A feminist masterpiece: tender, erotic, singular.' <b>Carmen Maria Machado</b><br>''Genius ... A broadcast from a stranger and more dazzling dimension.' <b>Patricia Lockwood</b><br>'Kind of weird and cool. ' <b>Irvine Welsh</b><br><b></b>'Genius ... Like <i>Revolutionary Road</i> written by Franz Kafka ... Exquisite.' <i><b>The Times</b></i><br>'Incredibly liberates readers from the awfulness of convention to a state where weirdness and otherness are beautiful.'<b> Sarah Hall</b><br>'A devastating fable of mythic proportions ... Wondrously peculiar.' <b>Irenosen Okojie</b> (foreword)<br><br>Dorothy is a grieving housewife in the Californian suburbs; her husband is unfaithful, but they are too unhappy to get a divorce. One day, she is doing chores when she hears strange voices on the radio announcing that a green-skinned sea monster has escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research - but little does she expect him to arrive in her kitchen. Muscular, vegetarian, sexually magnetic, Larry the frogman is a revelation - and their passionate affair takes them on a journey beyond their wildest dreams ... <b>Rachel Ingalls's <i>Mrs Caliban</i> </b>is a bittersweet fable, a subversive fairy tale, as magical today as it was four decades ago.<br><br><b> 'A miracle</b> . <b>A perfect novel.' </b><i>New Yorker</i><br><b>'Every one of its 125 pages is perfect ... Clear a Saturday, please, and read it in a single sitting.' </b>Harper's<br><br><b><u>What Readers Are Saying:</u></b><br><b>'Maybe the most gorgeous, lyrical book ever written'*****</b><br><b></b><br><b>'A fantastic wee novel, strange and brilliant, and absolutely the inspiration for<i> The Shape of Water</i>.'*****</b><br><b></b><br><b>'Wonderful, sharp minimal prose offers big truths. Superb - brilliant, in fact.'*****</b><br><b></b><br><b>'Absolutely incredible. It's weird, funny, and heartbreaking, like a Richard Yates novel except with lizardman sex.'*****</b><br><b></b><br><b>'One of the best tongue-in-cheek social satires that I've ever read. It delves into gender politics. It takes a long, hard look at mental health. It addresses female sexual freedom and agency. It asks the reader to examine what it means to be human ... Genius.'*****</b><br><b></b><br><b>'Really brilliant: a deconstruction of suburbia by way of monster movies that examines sad realities with hilarious verve ... Sometimes you need a sexy frog person to break you out of the ties that bind. '*****</b><br><br>'<b>Hooked me so deeply I picked it up and finished it the same night</b> ... <b>Beautiful ... Will stay with me.'*****</b><br><br><b>'What the hell just happened?'*****</b> <b>The amphibious cult classic: a magical </b><b>tale of a suburban housewife's affair with a frogman ...</b><br>'Disturbing but seductive ... Wonderful.' <b>Margaret Atwood</b><br>'Perfect.' <b>Max Porter</b><br>'Still outpaces, out-weirds, and out-romances anything today.' <b>Marlon James</b><br>'A feminist masterpiece: tender, erotic, singular.' <b>Carmen Maria Machado</b><br>''Genius ... A broadcast from a stranger and more dazzling dimension.' <b>Patricia Lockwood</b><br>'Kind of weird and cool. ' <b>Irvine Welsh</b><br><b></b>'Genius ... Like <i>Revolutionary Road</i> written by Franz Kafka ... Exquisite.' <i><b>The Times</b></i><br>'Incredibly liberates readers from the awfulness of convention to a state where weirdness and otherness are beautiful.'<b> Sarah Hall</b><br>'A devastating fable of mythic proportions ... Wondrously peculiar.' <b>Irenosen Okojie</b> (foreword)<br><br>Dorothy is a grieving housewife in the Californian suburbs; her husband is unfaithful, but they are too unhappy to get a divorce. One day, she is doing chores when she hears strange voices on the radio announcing that a green-skinned sea monster has escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research - but little does she expect him to arrive in her kitchen. Muscular, vegetarian, sexually magnetic, Larry the frogman is a revelation - and their passionate affair takes them on a journey beyond their wildest dreams ... <b>Rachel Ingalls's <i>Mrs Caliban</i> </b>is a bittersweet fable, a subversive fairy tale, as magical today as it was four decades ago.<br><br><b> 'A miracle</b> . <b>A perfect novel.' </b><i>New Yorker</i><br><b>'Every one of its 125 pages is perfect ... Clear a Saturday, please, and read it in a single sitting.' </b>Harper's<br><br><b><u>What Readers Are Saying:</u></b><br><b>'Maybe the most gorgeous, lyrical book ever written'*****</b><br><b></b><br><b>'A fantastic wee novel, strange and brilliant, and absolutely the inspiration for<i> The Shape of Water</i>.'*****</b><br><b></b><br><b>'Wonderful, sharp minimal prose offers big truths. Superb - brilliant, in fact.'*****</b><br><b></b><br><b>'Absolutely incredible. It's weird, funny, and heartbreaking, like a Richard Yates novel except with lizardman sex.'*****</b><br><b></b><br><b>'One of the best tongue-in-cheek social satires that I've ever read. It delves into gender politics. It takes a long, hard look at mental health. It addresses female sexual freedom and agency. It asks the reader to examine what it means to be human ... Genius.'*****</b><br><b></b><br><b>'Really brilliant: a deconstruction of suburbia by way of monster movies that examines sad realities with hilarious verve ... Sometimes you need a sexy frog person to break you out of the ties that bind. '*****</b><br><br>'<b>Hooked me so deeply I picked it up and finished it the same night</b> ... <b>Beautiful ... Will stay with me.'*****</b><br><br><b>'What the hell just happened?'*****</b>