Tamara Drewe
  • Published: 15 September 2009
  • ISBN: 9780224078177
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 136
  • RRP: $45.00

Tamara Drewe

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A brilliant new graphic novel inspired by Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd, by the author of the widely acclaimed Gemma Bovery.

Winner of the Grand Prix 2009 de la Critique Bande Dessinée.

Tamara Drewe has transformed herself. Plastic surgery, a different wardrobe, a smouldering look, have given her confidence and a new and thrilling power to attract, which she uses recklessly. Often just for the fun of it.

People are drawn to Tamara Drewe, male and female. In the remote village where her late mother lived Tamara arrives to clear up the house. Here she becomes an object of lust, of envy, the focus of unrequited love, a seductress. To the village teenagers she is 'plastic-fantastic', a role model. Ultimately, when her hot and indiscriminate glances lead to tragedy, she is seen as a man-eater, a heartless home-wrecker, a slut.

First appearing as a serial in the Guardian, in book form Tamara Drewe has been enlarged, embellished and lovingly improved by the author.
  • Published: 15 September 2009
  • ISBN: 9780224078177
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 136
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Posy Simmonds

Posy Simmonds is the author of many books for adults and children, including Gemma Bovery, Lulu and the Flying Babies and Fred, the film of which was nominated for an Oscar. She has won international awards for her work, including the 2009 Grand prix de la critique bande dessinée for Tamara Drewe. Both Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drewe have been made into successful feature films. Her third graphic novel, Cassandra Darke was published in 2018. She lives in London.

portrait photo of Posy Simmonds

Also by Posy Simmonds

Cassandra Darke
Literary Life Revisited
Lulu and the Chocolate Wedding
Mrs Weber's Omnibus
Gemma Bovery
The Young Visiters
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Praise for Tamara Drewe

Posy Simmonds is the laureate of English middle-class muddle, a peerless observer of their romantic confusions, emotional insecurities and professional vicissitudes. She gets to the heart of them more incisively and wittily than any number of her contemporaries... Tamara Drewe offers not only the psychological intricacy of good fiction but also the pictorial subtlety of art

Mail on Sunday, Anthony Quinn

Simmonds manages to be both sympathetic and merciless...she has a novelistic insight and ear for dialogue... If civilisation falls leaving only Tamara Drewe behind, it can be used as a blueprint for a flawless reconstruction of English village life in the mid-2000s, right down to the hoodies in the bus shelter

Daily Telegraph

Posy Simmonds is a true child of Hogarth, her accomplished cartoons a merciless commentary on the way we live now

Penny Perrick, Sunday Times

Simmonds is much more than a cartoonist: she makes us realize that a great cartoonist can be a great artist too

Stella Tillyard, Prospect