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SYNOPSIS
Tightly-paced and shot throughout with gallows humour, The Dinner Party is the chilling, ultimately moving story of a young man's obsession with ritual and the peculiar moral universe he inhabits. Printed editions: The Dinner Party (UK, 1998); Le Diner (France, 2003).
REVIEWS
"The Dinner Party shows a tremendous insight into the character
of a seriously disturbed young man. Ultimately believable, it is written
in first person and the reader is drawn into the character, both identifying
and empathizing with him... Scary stuff given the deranged nature of
the character. Like looking out through the eyes of a murderer: it is
amazing what you can justify and rationalize, even if you are irrational.
From the revelation of the secret Objects, Symbols, and Rites the reader
is drawn into the macabre world of a young man marked from the beginning
with the name of Felix Fly... The pace is sustained for the entire novel—it
hooks you in early and you have to keep reading to see if your own warped
idea of the finish is the same as the writer's."
Sandra Drake, review on Dreamforge eMagazine
"Not for the faint-hearted... it is a fascinating and repugnant
portrait of the pathological mind. Through a narrative cross-stitched
with grotesque humour, in which the mundane is whisked up with madness,
you are left cowering, your sensibilities like mincemeat, wide-eyed
on a slab of horror."
Syndicated review in various UK newspapers
"...bizarre in the extreme, [it] will keep you reading
until you are finished... Laced with instances of black humour, this
is a sharp and funny look at the life of a very sick individual. A stunning
debut."
Reader review on Alphabet Street eBookshop
"...the final scenes may make you reach for the bucket."
Eva magazine
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