· Janet Ellis trained as an actress at the Central London School of Speech and Drama. She is best known as a presenter on the popular British television show, Blue Peter, and contributes to numerous radio and television programs. The Butcher's Hook is her first novel, and it has been long listed for the Desmond Elliot www.doorway.ru: · The Butcher’s Hook by Janet Ellis review – macabre, witty debut Janet Ellis’s 18th-century blood-spattered anti-heroine could teach TV’s Dexter Author: Natasha Tripney. 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.
The Butcher's Hook - Kindle edition by Ellis, Janet. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Butcher's Hook. The Butcher's Hook. —. Janet Ellis. Set in Georgian London, the dark and twisted tale of a young girl who determines to take her destiny into her own hands―no matter the cost. London, summer At nineteen, Anne Jaccob is awakened to the possibility of joy when she meets Fub, the butcher's apprentice, and begins to imagine a life of. The Butcher's Hook by Janet Ellis is a lot of different things, it's very unique in so many ways that it will appeal to many different audiences. But before I get into all the reasons I loved it, I wanted to state a few things up front. The suspense of this book really kept Smokey on her paws.
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. 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. 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 first novel, and she is currently working on her next.
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