Cassandra Darke
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By Posy Simmonds
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WINNER OF THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE 2020***
‘Simmonds is a copper-bottomed genius… she is as brilliant a writer as Britain has’ Jenny Colgan, Mail Online
Cassandra Darke is an art dealer, mean, selfish, solitary by nature, living in Chelsea in a house worth £7 million.
She has become a social pariah, but doesn’t much care. Between one Christmas and the next, she has sullied the reputation of a West End gallery and has acquired a conviction for fraud, a suspended sentence and a bank balance drained by lawsuits. On the scale of villainy, fraud seems to Cassandra a rather paltry offence – her own crime involving ‘no violence, no weapon, no dead body’.
But in Cassandra’s basement, her young ex-lodger, Nicki, has left a surprise, something which implies at least violence and probably a body . . . Something which forces Cassandra out of her rich enclave and onto the streets. Not those local streets paved with gold and lit with festive glitter, but grimmer, darker places, where she must make the choice between self-sacrifice and running for her life.
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Really enjoyed this beautifully drawn graphic novel that manages to be biting social commentary, funny, serious, satirical and a jolly good ripping yarn all at the same time. Cassandra Darke, the anti-heroine of the story, is kind of a modern day Scrooge but theres so much more to this book than that. I think I'm going to have to read it again and again to fully appreciate all the nuances in the story, the characters and the artwork. Fabulous book, highly recommended. Oh, and it's printed on the most gorgeous quality of paper, too. An absolute pleasure in every respect.
