![]() ![]() But there’s another contender in the form of six-year-old Cristabel Berwick, an “oddity of nature” with pike teeth, who smells of the sea and draws people’s memories out of them. The frontrunner for Best Female Character in a Supporting Role is Bridie’s terrifying 7ft tall housemaid, Cora Butter. Together they form the most affecting supernatural love triangle since Whoopi Goldberg channelled Patrick Swayze for Demi Moore in Ghost. His rival for her affections is Insp Valentine Rose of Scotland Yard, who, Ruby concedes, has the advantage at least of being living. A detective with a talent for reading corpses in a London “awash with the freshly murdered”, Bridie is rumoured to wear a dagger strapped to her thigh, smokes a pipe of Prudhoes Bronchial Balsam Blend – “you add lots of Prudhoe’s Blend for colourful thoughts and triple that amount for no thoughts at all” – and is “captain of herself” we are told.īest Male Character goes to Ruby Doyle, the ghost of a champion boxer who rises from his grave clad only in a top hat, unlaced boots and white drawers to traipse around London after Bridie. The book’s heroine, Bridie Devine, is a shoo-in for Best Female Character in a Leading Role. ![]() ![]() If there was an Oscar ceremony for books, then Jess Kidd’s Victorian mystery Things in Jars would surely sweep the board. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |