Bolt from the Blue - by Jeremy Cooper (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A novel in epistolary form, <i> Bolt from the Blue </i>charts the relationship between a mother and her artistic daughter over the course of thirty-odd years, and offers a partial and subjective account of British contemporary art since the mid-1980s.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In <i>Bolt from the Blue</i>, Jeremy Cooper, the winner of the 2018 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, charts the relationship between a mother and daughter over the course of thirty-odd years. In October 1985, Lynn moves down to London to enroll at Saint Martin's School of Art, leaving her mother behind in a suburb of Birmingham. Their relationship is complicated, and their only form of contact is through the letters, postcards and emails they send each other periodically, while Lynn slowly makes her mark on the London art scene. A novel in epistolary form, <i>Bolt from the Blue</i> captures the waxing and waning of the mother-daugher relationship over time, achieving a rare depth of feeling with a deceptively simple literary form.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'Jeremy Cooper's work is consistently haunting and layered, built on a refreshing trust in the reader to delve deeper behind the quiet insinuations of his prose. His work resists every modern accelerant, creating a patient and precise tonic. He is easily one of the most thoughtful British fiction writers working today.' -- Adam Scovell, author of How Pale the Winter Has Made Us</em></p> 'Bolt from the Blue</em> is a scintillating, wistful exploration of a good career and a poor relationship. Pithy yet expansive, it's an essential, engrossing, illuminating read for any aspiring artist.' -- Sara Baume, author of Handiwork</em></p> 'There's a strange magic to Jeremy Cooper's writing. The way he puts words together creates an incantatory effect. Reading him is to be spellbound, then. I have no idea how he does it, only that I am seduced.' -- Ben Myers, author of The Offing</em></p> 'For a book that has the word 'love' on almost every page, Bolt from the Blue</em> is endlessly inventive in showing us how love is often hidden, rationed, coded and disguised. It is an epistolary dialogue between a life of possibilities - as shown through the maturing vision of an artist - and one of disappointments, expressed through the wise and seasoned scepticism of the artist's mother. Jeremy Cooper is a deft and sensitive writer who understands how to entrust his book to his characters.' -- Ronan Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul</em></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Jeremy Cooper is a writer and art historian, author of five previous novels and several works of non-fiction, including the standard work on nineteenth century furniture, studies of young British artists in the 1990s, and, in 2019, the British Museum's catalogue of artists' postcards. Early on he appeared in the first twenty-four of BBC's Antiques Roadshow and, in 2018, won the first Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize for Ash before Oak</em>.
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