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When Liz Meredith and her new baby move into the middle row-house on Onley Street—Liza having lived for years off-grid in an old railcar—there's more to get used to than electricity and proper plumbing. She's desperate to avoid her well-meaning social worker and her neighbours Alice and Tom, who, for reasons of their own, won't leave her alone. And then there is her other neighbour, the disfigured and reclusive John Green, better known to the world as Frankie Styne, the author of a series of violent bestsellers. When his latest novel is unexpectedly nominated for a literary prize and his private life is exposed in the glare of publicity, Frankie plots a gruesome, twisted revenge that threatens others who call Onley Street home. Frankie Styne and the Silver Man is unforgettable: a thrilling novel of literary revenge, celebrity culture and the power of love and beauty in an ugly world.

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Advanced Praise for Frankie Styne and the Silver Man Exquisite ...[Page's] favored themes are here--the stark dichotomies of life, the power of language, the way the social system tries and fails to help people, and how saving grace can come from unseen places ... A fierce writer; her relentless imagination and pure writing skills bring a broken, nightmare world fully to life. --Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review Page's imaginative powers are electric. She has the ability to analyze the often nightmarish qualities of the human psyche and as a result, Frankie Styne is a taut examination of the complex emotional ties that bind, the methods we employ to distance ourselves, and our ambiguous powers of imagination. She is at once poignant and provocative, stomach-churningly distasteful and yet compulsively readable. --Time Out UK Frankie Styne and the Silver Man resists being put down for the night... I read ?on, captivated and creeped-out. But this being Kathy Page, I always trusted ?I was heading away from a nightmare, towards a happier place. This is Felicia's Journey, with a big dollop of hope. --Caroline Adderson, prize-winning author of Ellen in Pieces Fresh and engaging. Her writing is crisp and her insights into human behavior are acute. --Lynne Van Luven, Monday Magazine Great story. Great writing, too. [Frankie Styne renders] down the monstrous, gently fold the abnormal into an embrace and make it human ... Fantastic! --Helen Heffernan

Advanced Praise for Frankie Styne and the Silver Man Exquisite ...[Page's] favored themes are here--the stark dichotomies of life, the power of language, the way the social system tries and fails to help people, and how saving grace can come from unseen places ... A fierce writer; her relentless imagination and pure writing skills bring a broken, nightmare world fully to life. --Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review Frankie Styne offers a terrific showcase of Page's singular style (with its attractive high-low mixture of genres), quirky unexpected invention, and attention to the nuances of psychology. Mere words on a page, her creations linger in the mind long after the reading's done. --Vancouver Sun Frankie Styne and the Silver Man is a fantastic novel. Character driven, claustrophobic, and deeply weird, it has a haunting, discomfiting quality that lingers with a reader. --Toronto Star This book has the trappings of great pulp...Page's prose is vivid and alive, with nary a scrap of throwaway writing to be found. --Publishers Weekly Page's imaginative powers are electric. She has the ability to analyze the often nightmarish qualities of the human psyche and as a result, Frankie Styne is a taut examination of the complex emotional ties that bind, the methods we employ to distance ourselves, and our ambiguous powers of imagination. She is at once poignant and provocative, stomach-churningly distasteful and yet compulsively readable. --Time Out UK Frankie Styne and the Silver Man resists being put down for the night... I read on, captivated and creeped-out. But this being Kathy Page, I always trusted I was heading away from a nightmare, towards a happier place. This is Felicia's Journey, with a big dollop of hope. --Caroline Adderson, prize-winning author of Ellen in Pieces Fresh and engaging. Her writing is crisp and her insights into human behavior are acute. --Lynne Van Luven, Monday Magazine Great story. Great writing, too. [Frankie Styne renders] down the monstrous, gently fold the abnormal into an embrace and make it human ... Fantastic! --Helen Heffernan

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Kathy Page is the author of seven novels, including Alphabet (an Indie Next Great Read of 2014, Kirkus Best Book of 2014, and Shelf Awareness Shelf Discovery Pick), The Story of My Face (longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2002), and The Find (shorlisted for the ReLit Award in 2011), as well as many short stories, previously collected in As In Music. She recently co-edited In the Flesh (2012), a collection of personal essays about the human body, and has written for television and radio. Her 1992 novel Frankie Styne & the Silver Man will make its American debut as a Biblioasis ReSet Book in the fall of 2015. Born in the UK, Kathy has lived on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia since 2001.

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