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|setting = [[Manchester]] | |setting = [[Manchester]] | ||
|writer = [[Paul Magrs]] | |writer = [[Paul Magrs]] | ||
|release date = [[22 January (releases)|22 January]] [[2021 (releases)|2021]] | |release date = [[22 January (releases)|22 January]] [[2021 (releases)|2021]] | ||
|price = £12.00 | |price = £12.00 | ||
|isbn = ISBN: 979-8580066561 | |isbn = ISBN: 979-8580066561 | ||
|format = Paperback book, 475 pages | |format = Paperback book, 475 pages | ||
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'''''Hunky Dory''''' was a [[Paul Magrs]] novel released in [[22 January (releases)|January]] [[2021 (releases)|2021]]. Magrs described it as the first standalone literally novel he had written in years;<ref>[https://twitter.com/paulmagrs/status/1352655892198653964 Paul Magrs on Twitter]</ref> its main character, [[Dodie Golightly]], originated in the [[2013 (releases)|2013]] ''[[Iris Wildthyme (series)|Iris Wildthyme]]'' story ''[[The Ninnies on Putney Common (short story)|The Ninnies on Putney Common]]''. | '''''Hunky Dory''''' was a [[Paul Magrs]] novel released in [[22 January (releases)|January]] [[2021 (releases)|2021]]. Magrs described it as the first standalone literally novel he had written in years;<ref>[https://twitter.com/paulmagrs/status/1352655892198653964 Paul Magrs on Twitter]</ref> its main character, [[Dodie Golightly]], originated in the [[2013 (releases)|2013]] ''[[Iris Wildthyme (series)|Iris Wildthyme]]'' story ''[[The Ninnies on Putney Common (short story)|The Ninnies on Putney Common]]''. | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* Dodie | * Dodie previously appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ninnies on Putney Common (short story)|The Ninnies on Putney Common]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Mother, Maiden, Crone (novel)|Mother, Maiden, Crone]]''. | ||
* The train to [[Manchester Piccadilly|Piccadilly]] runs through [[Levenshulme railway station]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Wickerwork Man (short story)|The Wickerwork Man]]'', ''[[The Story of Fester Cat (novel)|The Story of Fester Cat]]'') | * The train to [[Manchester Piccadilly|Piccadilly]] runs through [[Levenshulme railway station]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Wickerwork Man (short story)|The Wickerwork Man]]'', ''[[The Story of Fester Cat (novel)|The Story of Fester Cat]]'') | ||
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Revision as of 00:02, 26 January 2021
Hunky Dory was a Paul Magrs novel released in January 2021. Magrs described it as the first standalone literally novel he had written in years;[1] its main character, Dodie Golightly, originated in the 2013 Iris Wildthyme story The Ninnies on Putney Common.
Publisher's summary
Dodie Golightly has just taken charge of Hunky Dory café: the best café in the world. In a neglected corner of south Manchester they've been serving frothy coffee and late night pizzas longer than Dodie's even been alive. She's in her mid-thirties, still living at home, and waiting for her life to start. She's hidden herself away too long..!
Her mother Elena has other ideas for the café her recently-deceased husband created. She's decided it's time to go upmarket and continental. This glamorous widow is a bundle of energy: intent on saving the local library, finishing off her memoirs and even organising a little light kidnapping of unruly Creative Writing Professors...
New to the Golightly circle is Ian – a young gay man who comes to work at the café: whose dream is to have a tiny secondhand bookshop and watch the world go by. He's cynical about love and stuck in a mostly-off romance with a lad who works on the market. But this is the year that Ian's about to fall in love at last...
It looks as if Dodie has found love, too – with a sexy, slightly tubby guy who's writing the strangest-sounding sci-fi novel in the world. These three and their best friends and neighbours embark on all kinds of adventures through long summer nights in Manchester, with library sit-ins, nights out dancing, hostage-takings and lots of nocturnal coffee and gin...
A bit like Armistead Maupin in multicultural south Manchester - it's a novel about storytelling, friendship and love: and about finding your place in the world.
Plot
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Characters
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References
- Elena was born and raised in Levenshulme.
Notes
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Continuity
- Dodie previously appeared in PROSE: The Ninnies on Putney Common and PROSE: Mother, Maiden, Crone.
- The train to Piccadilly runs through Levenshulme railway station. (PROSE: The Wickerwork Man, The Story of Fester Cat)
External links
- Hunky Dory on Amazon
