Overview

Late 60s London, folk star Sarah Kumar arrives to give a concert. She is hot stuff and a hot mess - androgynous, awkward and alluring. Kumar attends hip parties, sings to adoring fans and passes out wasted. She is a picture of consummate coolness, hid nervously behind huge sunglasses. Kumar's world is turned upside when she meets an older woman, the intoxicating Mrs. Stankovich.

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""A Jingle Jangle Song brings into the light neglected modes of daily, queer, racialised experience, and commits to being wholly new and strange. It's a triumph and I'm so glad Lurid Editions has put it in our hands again""-Noreen Masud, author of A Flat Place ""To read A Jingle Jangle Song is to discover a missing link in the tradition of the 20th century lesbian novel. It speaks back to The Well of Loneliness and to The Price of Salt, it speaks forward to the Jeanette Winterson of Written on the Body. At the same time, the world it creates in its spare, compressed way is uncannily contemporary - encompassing celebrity culture, gender fluidity, the politics of body hair""-Leigh Wilson, Publisher, Spiracle Audiobooks ""The heartrending is audible . . . this novella is at once urbane, tender and brutal. Queer desire painted in vivid strokes and furtive dashes through protests and parties of 1960s London. To be devoured whole in one sitting""-Helen Palmer, author of Pleasure Beach ""A lesbian love story set against the rapacity of the music business""-Jane Cholmeley, author of A Bookshop of One's Own

“A Jingle-Jangle Song brings into the light neglected modes of daily, queer, racialised experience, and commits to being wholly new and strange. It's a triumph and I'm so glad Lurid Editions has put it in our hands again”—Noreen Masud, author of A Flat Place “To read A Jingle-Jangle Song is to discover a missing link in the tradition of the 20th century lesbian novel. It speaks back to The Well of Loneliness and to The Price of Salt, it speaks forward to the Jeanette Winterson of Written on the Body. At the same time, the world it creates in its spare, compressed way is uncannily contemporary — encompassing celebrity culture, gender fluidity, the politics of body hair”—Leigh Wilson, Publisher, Spiracle Audiobooks ""The heartrending is audible . . . this novella is at once urbane, tender and brutal. Queer desire painted in vivid strokes and furtive dashes through protests and parties of 1960s London. To be devoured whole in one sitting""—Helen Palmer, author of Pleasure Beach “A lesbian love story set against the rapacity of the music business”—Jane Cholmeley, author of A Bookshop of One's Own

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Mariana Villa-Gilbert was born on 21 February 1937 in Croydon, South London. Despite studying art and sculpture, Villa-Gilbert wanted to be a writer. Her first novel Mrs Galbraith's Air was published by Chatto and Windus in 1963. She published five other novels with the publisher over the next decade, My Love All Dressed in White (1964), and Mrs Cantello (1966), A Jingle Jangle Song (1968), The Others (1970) and Manuela: A Modern Myth (1973). A short story collection, The Sun in Hours - the final published work in her lifetime - came in 1986. In the 1990s Villa-Gilbert moved to Cornwall and retreated from public view. She continued to write, however, and her literary papers - recently acquired by Special Collections at the University of Exeter - contain many unpublished manuscripts. Villa-Gilbert died in 2023. Lurid's new edition of A Jingle Jangle Song is the first republication of a Villa-Gilbert novel since the 1970s.

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