The Oxenbridge King: The remarkable new novel from an award-winning author, for readers of Hilary Mantel...

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Christine Paice

The Oxenbridge King

The remarkable new novel from an award-winning author, for readers of Hilary Mantel and Sarah...

Christine Paice

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31 July 2024

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Historical fiction; Fiction: special features

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Tender, endearing, lyrical, surprising, and magical - think Hilary Mantel meets Sarah Winman with a dash of Neil Gaiman - The Oxenbridge King is a delight, a true original.

Imagine, if you will: the lost soul of King Richard III; a talking raven; a lonely angel; and a young woman called

Molly Stern, who is heartbroken, grieving, and a bit stroppy. When their worlds collide, anything can happen.

Richard III is trapped in the afterlife, waiting with his guide, Raven, for an angel to take his soul

to Heaven. Though he's been between worlds for hundreds of years, up in the real world it's 2013 and Molly Stern has a broken heart from losing her father and a recent breakup. Leaving London, Molly goes home to seek solace from her Aunt Peggy and Uncle Frank in Oxenbridge. But

there are strange noises in the basement of her childhood house and nothing feels right, not even between Peggy and Frank. When the angel encounters Molly -

and Raven at last finds the angel - life and the afterlife meet, with surprising and unexpected consequences.

Inspired by the discovery of the bones of Richard III beneath a car park in England, award-winning poet Christine Paice has fashioned a beautiful, singular, warm, endearing, and funny novel that weaves in and out of time and space and possibility. The Oxenbridge King is a tender and wise meditation on what survives of us when we're gone, and how, in the end, love and family are everything.

'Completely original, such lovely, dreamy writing, every character a delight - I adored it' Jaclyn Moriarty

By: Christine Paice
Imprint: HARPER360
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 437g
ISBN: 9781460764367
ISBN 10: 1460764366
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 31 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Christine Paice is the author of the novel The Word Ghost and two poetry collections, Staring at the Aral Sea and Mad Oaks. Her poetry has also been published in the Best Australian Poems anthologies, and she won the prestigious Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize in 2009. In 2010 Christine became the University of Wollongong's inaugural Janet Cosh Poet, resulting in the work Collecting the Collector. Christine facilitates creative writing and poetry workshops, and also works as a creative writing mentor. She has recently moved back to the United Kingdom.