Blood

Author: Gee, Maggie

Fiction & related items

Published on 7 February 2019 by Fentum Press.

Who attacked Dad? When corrupt, brutal dentist Albert Ludd is found battered and bloody after failing to attend a memorial party for his youngest son, a solider, suspicion falls on his other children, especially 37-year-old buxom bruiser Monica, who was heard 'uttering threats' against her absent father. How come her car is found outside his house? Why did she buy a large axe? Yet, Monica's a deputy head.

Blood is a Gothic black comedy seen through the eyes of six-foot Monica, who speaks her secret thoughts aloud and who has been banned by the principal of her school, from using social media: 'Parents are sensitive to abuse. Governors query `moron' and `twat'.'

Blood asks serious questions about modern life: what can we do with the brutal men who bully women and the weak? Can we wait for a world of order and justice? If we hit back, can the circle of violence ever be broken?