Ebook {Epub PDF} The Butchers Hook by Janet Ellis

 · Janet Ellis's The Butcher's Hook is a complete package. The settings, characters, the pace and the action are tightly controlled. There's some really nice dry humour in there too, some genuinely funny moments. And the story is likely to have you, well, hooked. It's amazing to think that this is her debut. I loved it. I can't wait to see what comes next.4/5(9). Janet Ellis trained as an actress at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She is best known for presenting Blue Peter and contributes to numerous radio and TV programmes. A graduate of the Curtis Brown creative writing course, The Butcher’s Hook is her /5. Janet Ellis's deliciously gruesome debut novel 'The Butcher's Hook' takes us back to Georgian England where we meet nineteen-year-old Anne Jaccob, who has led a sheltered and lonely life, the child of parents who have suffered the loss of a young son in infancy and a series of miscarriages - a situation that has left her mother exhausted and desperate to keep her recently delivered daughter alive and well/5().

The Butcher's Hook FORMER Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis has burst on to the literary scene with a bodice-ripping thriller that might traumatise her young viewers were they to pick up a copy. A Q A with Janet Ellis, author of The Butcher's Hook. 29 Feb. I'm very happy, along with Jaffa Reads Too, to be kicking off the blog tour for Janet Ellis's compelling debut novel, The Butcher's Hook (you can read my review here). Janet kindly agreed to answer some questions (I could have provided pages of them but - spoilers) her. The Butcher's Hook, written in first person, follows the slow (and eventually somewhat predictable) descent of the novel's narrator, Anne, who lives at home with her parents, into increasingly disturbing perceptions of those around her. Janet Ellis, the author, explores illusion, delusion, and wild imagination in the character of Anne.

Janet Ellis's The Butcher's Hook is a complete package. The settings, characters, the pace and the action are tightly controlled. There's some really nice dry humour in there too, some genuinely funny moments. And the story is likely to have you, well, hooked. It's amazing to think that this is her debut. I loved it. I can't wait to see what comes next. The Butcher's Hook, written in first person, follows the slow (and eventually somewhat predictable) descent of the novel's narrator, Anne, who lives at home with her parents, into increasingly disturbing perceptions of those around her. Janet Ellis, the author, explores illusion, delusion, and wild imagination in the character of Anne. Janet Ellis serves up what seems, at first, to be a fairly standard piece of historical fiction. Anne Jaccob doesn’t want to get married—but since this is London in , she gets little say in the matter.