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Electricity

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. Gets on with it. Has to - what choice is there? So she's learned to make do, to make the most of things, to look after - and out for - herself: coping, managing, and surviving, and needing no-one and asking for nothing. 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.

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  • "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. Gets on with it. Has to - what choice is there? So she's learned to make do, to make the most of things, to look after - and out for - herself: coping, managing, and surviving, and needing no-one and asking for nothing. 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."@en
  • "Lily's epilepsy has meant that she has gone through life doing what she has to do in order to get by. But when her mother dies, she is drawn back into a world she thought she had long since left behind, and she realises she has a lot to learn - about relationships, about the past, and about herself."
  • "Thirty-year-old Lily O'Connor lives with epilepsy, uncontrollable surges of electricity that leave her in a constant state of edginess. Prickly, up-front-honest and down-to-earth practical, Lily has learned to make do, to make the most of things, to look after - and out for - herself. Then her mother - whom Lily has not seen for years - dies, and Lily is drawn back into a world she thought she'd long since left behind."
  • "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's visceral, ambitious debut novel Electricity is a tour de force portrayal of a heroine you will not soon forget. Thirty-year-old Lily O'Connor lives with epilepsy, uncontrollable surges of electricity that leave her in a constant state of edginess. Prickly, up-front-honest and down-to-earth practical, Lily has learned to make do, to make the most of things, to look after? and out for? herself. Then her mother? whom Lily has not seen for years? dies, and Lily is drawn back into a world she thought she'd long since left behind. Reunited with her brother, a charismatic poker pla."@en
  • "When Lily, an epileptic, discovers that her estranged mother has died, she takes her share of the inheritance and goes to London in search of her long lost brother."

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  • "Novels"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"

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  • "Electricity"
  • "Electricity"@en
  • "Electricidad"
  • "Lily Roman"
  • "Lily : Roman"

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