A novel of intimacy, loneliness and love, 02 Aug 2001
The Sudden Spoon is a journey into the feelings, thoughts and memories of Eliza Looker and the moments her life crosses the path of Savinien.

This is a disturbing, dark and tragic novel full of apparitions. Apparitions of the Virgin Mary whose sites Eliza tries to capture through the eye of her camera; apparitions of Eliza's past, present and future; apparitions of love.

The reader is drawn deep inside Eliza's interior world where we are given glimpses, snapshots with which to map out her journey from Penzance in Cornwall to canalsides in London, from journeys through France to the deserts of Tunisia.

Eliza is distant, remote and even disturbed, but through fragments of memories and her encounters with Savinien we come to know her intimacy and her loneliness.

This is the second novel from L.E.Usher and confirms her as a talented writer who is not afraid to explore the disturbing side of human feeling.

With echoes of Virgnia Woolf, L.E.Usher's style leaves fleeting images and perceptions imprinted on the mind's eye long after the book is closed.

A novel of intimacy, loneliness and love, 02 Aug 2001
The Sudden Spoon is a journey into the feelings, thoughts and memories of Eliza Looker and the moments her life crosses the path of Savinien.

This is a disturbing, dark and tragic novel full of apparitions. Apparitions of the Virgin Mary whose sites Eliza tries to capture through the eye of her camera; apparitions of Eliza's past, present and future; apparitions of love.

The reader is drawn deep inside Eliza's interior world where we are given glimpses, snapshots with which to map out her journey from Penzance in Cornwall to canalsides in London, from journeys through France to the deserts of Tunisia.

Eliza is distant, remote and even disturbed, but through fragments of memories and her encounters with Savinien we come to know her intimacy and her loneliness.

This is the second novel from L.E.Usher and confirms her as a talented writer who is not afraid to explore the disturbing side of human feeling.

With echoes of Virgnia Woolf, L.E.Usher's style leaves fleeting images and perceptions imprinted on the mind's eye long after the book is closed.

Seems like a treaty in female criminology. And why is she d, 14 Aug 2003
I was intrigued at first, and the premise was chilling enough.But I was soon bored whit all these cases exposed like in a criminology casebook. They continuously interrupt the action ( not that there's much of it), and after a while seems all the same story (which they aren't, obviously, but read four or five in a row...).
But what I couldn't understand is the substantial lack of motivation for the protagonist to poison her partner. It isn't jealousy, revenge, not even sadism: she simply doesn't give any sound reason. Well, this is absolutely silly. This is even more stupid in comparison whit the crime cases, when the women killed for a strongly felt motivation. If her companion is such a jerk, why she doesn't simply leave him?

'Miss' is a chilling read, 20 Mar 2000
'Miss' manages to mix a range of styles and genres into a strangely affecting story of psycho-pathology. A woman sets out to poison her lover and these episodes are inteaved with lyrical memories of a childhood in Australia, the real-life stories of women criminals, and the arcane world of bookselling. The novel works on several levels simultaneously achieving a richly evocative and disturbing climax.

A novel of intimacy, loneliness and love, 02 Aug 2001
The Sudden Spoon is a journey into the feelings, thoughts and memories of Eliza Looker and the moments her life crosses the path of Savinien.

This is a disturbing, dark and tragic novel full of apparitions. Apparitions of the Virgin Mary whose sites Eliza tries to capture through the eye of her camera; apparitions of Eliza's past, present and future; apparitions of love.

The reader is drawn deep inside Eliza's interior world where we are given glimpses, snapshots with which to map out her journey from Penzance in Cornwall to canalsides in London, from journeys through France to the deserts of Tunisia.

Eliza is distant, remote and even disturbed, but through fragments of memories and her encounters with Savinien we come to know her intimacy and her loneliness.

This is the second novel from L.E.Usher and confirms her as a talented writer who is not afraid to explore the disturbing side of human feeling.

With echoes of Virgnia Woolf, L.E.Usher's style leaves fleeting images and perceptions imprinted on the mind's eye long after the book is closed.

Seems like a treaty in female criminology. And why is she d, 14 Aug 2003
I was intrigued at first, and the premise was chilling enough.But I was soon bored whit all these cases exposed like in a criminology casebook. They continuously interrupt the action ( not that there's much of it), and after a while seems all the same story (which they aren't, obviously, but read four or five in a row...).
But what I couldn't understand is the substantial lack of motivation for the protagonist to poison her partner. It isn't jealousy, revenge, not even sadism: she simply doesn't give any sound reason. Well, this is absolutely silly. This is even more stupid in comparison whit the crime cases, when the women killed for a strongly felt motivation. If her companion is such a jerk, why she doesn't simply leave him?

'Miss' is a chilling read, 20 Mar 2000
'Miss' manages to mix a range of styles and genres into a strangely affecting story of psycho-pathology. A woman sets out to poison her lover and these episodes are inteaved with lyrical memories of a childhood in Australia, the real-life stories of women criminals, and the arcane world of bookselling. The novel works on several levels simultaneously achieving a richly evocative and disturbing climax.

Seems like a treaty in female criminology. And why is she d, 14 Aug 2003
I was intrigued at first, and the premise was chilling enough.But I was soon bored whit all these cases exposed like in a criminology casebook. They continuously interrupt the action ( not that there's much of it), and after a while seems all the same story (which they aren't, obviously, but read four or five in a row...).
But what I couldn't understand is the substantial lack of motivation for the protagonist to poison her partner. It isn't jealousy, revenge, not even sadism: she simply doesn't give any sound reason. Well, this is absolutely silly. This is even more stupid in comparison whit the crime cases, when the women killed for a strongly felt motivation. If her companion is such a jerk, why she doesn't simply leave him?

'Miss' is a chilling read, 20 Mar 2000
'Miss' manages to mix a range of styles and genres into a strangely affecting story of psycho-pathology. A woman sets out to poison her lover and these episodes are inteaved with lyrical memories of a childhood in Australia, the real-life stories of women criminals, and the arcane world of bookselling. The novel works on several levels simultaneously achieving a richly evocative and disturbing climax.

A novel of intimacy, loneliness and love, 02 Aug 2001
The Sudden Spoon is a journey into the feelings, thoughts and memories of Eliza Looker and the moments her life crosses the path of Savinien.

This is a disturbing, dark and tragic novel full of apparitions. Apparitions of the Virgin Mary whose sites Eliza tries to capture through the eye of her camera; apparitions of Eliza's past, present and future; apparitions of love.

The reader is drawn deep inside Eliza's interior world where we are given glimpses, snapshots with which to map out her journey from Penzance in Cornwall to canalsides in London, from journeys through France to the deserts of Tunisia.

Eliza is distant, remote and even disturbed, but through fragments of memories and her encounters with Savinien we come to know her intimacy and her loneliness.

This is the second novel from L.E.Usher and confirms her as a talented writer who is not afraid to explore the disturbing side of human feeling.

With echoes of Virgnia Woolf, L.E.Usher's style leaves fleeting images and perceptions imprinted on the mind's eye long after the book is closed.

Seems like a treaty in female criminology. And why is she d, 14 Aug 2003
I was intrigued at first, and the premise was chilling enough.But I was soon bored whit all these cases exposed like in a criminology casebook. They continuously interrupt the action ( not that there's much of it), and after a while seems all the same story (which they aren't, obviously, but read four or five in a row...).
But what I couldn't understand is the substantial lack of motivation for the protagonist to poison her partner. It isn't jealousy, revenge, not even sadism: she simply doesn't give any sound reason. Well, this is absolutely silly. This is even more stupid in comparison whit the crime cases, when the women killed for a strongly felt motivation. If her companion is such a jerk, why she doesn't simply leave him?

'Miss' is a chilling read, 20 Mar 2000
'Miss' manages to mix a range of styles and genres into a strangely affecting story of psycho-pathology. A woman sets out to poison her lover and these episodes are inteaved with lyrical memories of a childhood in Australia, the real-life stories of women criminals, and the arcane world of bookselling. The novel works on several levels simultaneously achieving a richly evocative and disturbing climax.

Seems like a treaty in female criminology. And why is she d, 14 Aug 2003
I was intrigued at first, and the premise was chilling enough.But I was soon bored whit all these cases exposed like in a criminology casebook. They continuously interrupt the action ( not that there's much of it), and after a while seems all the same story (which they aren't, obviously, but read four or five in a row...).
But what I couldn't understand is the substantial lack of motivation for the protagonist to poison her partner. It isn't jealousy, revenge, not even sadism: she simply doesn't give any sound reason. Well, this is absolutely silly. This is even more stupid in comparison whit the crime cases, when the women killed for a strongly felt motivation. If her companion is such a jerk, why she doesn't simply leave him?

'Miss' is a chilling read, 20 Mar 2000
'Miss' manages to mix a range of styles and genres into a strangely affecting story of psycho-pathology. A woman sets out to poison her lover and these episodes are inteaved with lyrical memories of a childhood in Australia, the real-life stories of women criminals, and the arcane world of bookselling. The novel works on several levels simultaneously achieving a richly evocative and disturbing climax.

A novel of intimacy, loneliness and love, 02 Aug 2001
The Sudden Spoon is a journey into the feelings, thoughts and memories of Eliza Looker and the moments her life crosses the path of Savinien.

This is a disturbing, dark and tragic novel full of apparitions. Apparitions of the Virgin Mary whose sites Eliza tries to capture through the eye of her camera; apparitions of Eliza's past, present and future; apparitions of love.

The reader is drawn deep inside Eliza's interior world where we are given glimpses, snapshots with which to map out her journey from Penzance in Cornwall to canalsides in London, from journeys through France to the deserts of Tunisia.

Eliza is distant, remote and even disturbed, but through fragments of memories and her encounters with Savinien we come to know her intimacy and her loneliness.

This is the second novel from L.E.Usher and confirms her as a talented writer who is not afraid to explore the disturbing side of human feeling.

With echoes of Virgnia Woolf, L.E.Usher's style leaves fleeting images and perceptions imprinted on the mind's eye long after the book is closed.