Gert Hardcastle is thirty-something and unlucky in love. She is also estranged from her mother. As Crocodile Soup opens, she thinks she has found "the...

Gert Hardcastle is thirty-something and unlucky in love. She is also estranged from her mother. As Crocodile Soup opens, she thinks she has found "the One" -- the enigmatic Eva, who serves coffee at the cafeteria in the museum where Gert works as a curator cataloging Egyptian artifacts. As Gert embarks on her hilarious and poignant pursuit of Eva, she looks back on her eccentric, childhood through a series of vivid and surreal flashbacks: her obsessive twin, Frank, with whom she communicates telepathically; her father, George, who vanished to Africa to salvage the family crocodile farm; her vain, neglectful mother, Jean; and the family ghost -- a Victorian poet who haunts the attic.In a narrative studded with relentless humor and giddy self-deprecation, Julia Darling introduces an endearing cast of characters whose shared and wayward search for love is irresistible.

Author: Julia Darling
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 07/02/2002
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.28w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780060090401

About the Author
Darling, Julia: -

Julia Darling is a playwright, poet, and short-story writer. Crocodile Soup is her first novel. She lives in northern England with her two daughters.