Shocking, powerful allegorical novel set in the dark underbelly of contemporary London.
Jo-Ann Goodwin grew up in Sheffield and studied English at Hull University. She followed this with an M.Phil on Dickens at York University. She works as a full-time journalist and is particularly known for her investigations into organized crime and miscarriages of justice. Jo-Ann is married and lives in north London. Her fist novel, Danny Boy, was widely acclaimed. Sweet Gum was shortlisted for the 2006 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award.
Jo-Ann Goodwin's Sweet Gum...combines a gripping contemporary crime
story with literary symbolism. Hers is a fresh, sometimes comic and
profoundly moral new voice.
*MAIL ON SUNDAY*
Brilliant, sparkling and unforgiveably nasty
*DEBORAH ORR*
A writer who refuses to glamorise the violence of the
underworld...underpinning the tension with a cracking dry wit...Her
skill at characterisation is equal to Zadie Smith's...Like a good,
old-fashioned storyteller she is also a mistress at pacing,
mischievously lacing her novel with red herrings...a compelling,
thoughtful read
*SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY*
Terrifyingly intense and disturbing...her utter fearlessness as a
writer gives this novel both its power and ultimately its glory
*SUSANNA MOORE*
A modern parable...a nightmare vision...it's bloodcurdling
stuff.
*INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY*
A gripping murder mystery...it is Goodwin's pictures that stay with
you
*THE TIMES*
This ingenious, amoral thriller crackles with surprises and paints
a vivid picture of North London gangster life. It's also as
ghoulish as they come, with a truly stomach-churning finale.
*MAIL ON SUNDAY*
Goodwin's novel oozes gore and throbs with the stench of decay. An
investigative journalist... Goodwin has first-hand knowledge of the
underworld. She is also a fine writer...her crowning achievements
are the stomach-churning Shifter sister grotesques and the devil's
spawn Minimonster, "a video-nasty made flesh".
*DAILY TELEGRAPH*
Cleverly written and full of truths about our time, this is a
top-notch thriller
*OK*
A distinctly Gothic vision of London that owes as much to Martin
Amis as it does to Layer Cake...Goodwin writes with a confident
command of the material.
*METRO*
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