Memoirs of a Dipper

Resumen del libro

"A reading experience that hums with an electric energy that never gets boring and feels shockingly, painfully real." (The Times). 'There's different ways to do it: I can slowly move closer step by step, or I can do it in one movement and bump into them. Easiest is in a pub then I can put my drink too close to theirs.

Move my stool near theirs. Anything to cross the line.' Gary is a dipper, a burglar, a thief. He is still at junior school when his father first takes him out on the rob, and proves a fast learner: not much more than a child the first time he gets caught, he is a career criminal as soon as he is out again.

But Gary is also fiercely intelligent - he often knows more about the antique furniture he is stealing than the people who own it, and is confident in his ability to trick his way out of any situation, always one step ahead. But all that changes when he falls for Mandy...

Biografía del autor

(Glastonbury, Inglaterra, 1962) es novelista y dramaturga. Estudió Arte y trabajó como productora en televisión antes de dedicarse a la escritura tras el nacimiento de su segundo hijo. Fue galardonada con el Premio Evening Standard Theatre por su obra teatral Comfort Me with Apples. Bedlam fue la primera obra escrita por una mujer representada en el Shakespearex{0026} x02019;s Globe Theatre. Su primera novela, Black Dirt (2004), fue candidata al Orange Prize y finalista del Commonwealth Book Prize. En 2008 publicó Devotion. En Sexto Piso publicamos en 2013 Del color de la leche, que fue elegido Libro del Año en 2014 por el Gremio de Libreros de Madrid, y El show de Gary en 2016.