Karen McLeod

In Search of the Missing Eyelash

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First published in 2008 by Vintage this Betty Trask Award winning novel; a humorous LGBTQI+ coming of age story, is available for the first time in 17 years.

Lizzie is lonely. Her parents have gone and her brother, who believes he is a woman, is missing. Most of all, though, Lizzie misses Sally, her former lover, who has gone off with a man with a fat neck. She starts to stalk Sally, collecting bathroom fluff, dust and pubes from Sally's bed – all the things that prove that somewhere life is 

Author: Karen McLeod

Paperback  Published 6 June 2024  218 pages

Rich with the details of everyday life...this is a book fairly bursting with character... full of heart, imagination and funIndependent on Sunday

Both comic and moving as it explores ideas of self, of gender, identification and lonelinessObserver

Combines sitcom-style farce with movingly understated heartache Guardian

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