SNUG, Matthew Tree
SNUG, Matthew Tree
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SNUG
A novel

Author: Matthew Tree

Narrator: Matthew Tree

Unabridged: 12 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Matthew Tree

Published: 09/30/2019


Synopsis

Coldwater Bay - a tiny village tucked away on the southern coast of the Isle of Wight - suddenly finds itself besieged by Africans who have gone there for that very purpose. A racist doctor on holiday, two of his love-sick teenage wards, and the Africans' inside man in the village watch events unfold from their very different viewpoints, in this ambitious, original novel which steers a captivating path between the comic and the horrific.

Reviews

Goodreads review by M.

I've just had the fun of reading SNUG, I couldn't put it down and ended up late for work twice! Though it's his first English novel Matthew is author of 10 popular novels in Catalan, and it shows. The writing is just brilliant, he's caught the language, mannerisms and prejudices perfectly, and I felt......more

Goodreads review by Brett

Matthew Tree, the prolific British/Catalan writer has just published SNUG, his first novel in his native English. In this work, he shows that he is one of the few writers born in England who is brave enough to write honestly about social class in that country. Influenced in part by Chinua Achebe's "......more

Goodreads review by John

A friend gave me a copy of SNUG saying read this odd little English mystery. It starts out as a fairly common example of the genre, a family with friends of the children head off to the seaside out of season for a weeks holiday. As the characters are drawn, one begins to realize that there is a lot......more