![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lauren Groff's debut novel, The Monsters of Templeton, is everything a reader might have expected from this gifted writer, and more. Humourous and magical Sainsbury's Magazine ![]() the true 'monsters' of Templeton are its secrets. Yet Lauren Groff's remarkable debut is not a horror at all.as Willie slays her demons by slowly but surely excavating her family tree, the novel blossoms into a crossbreed of intimate confession, eccentric social history, origin myth and literary biography. This cracking tale, admirer Stephen King gleefully says, is full of "monsters, murders, bastards and ne'er do-wells". Groff's delightful debut is a glorious hybrid of history and humour, with just a sprinkling of magic. THE MONSTERS OF TEMPLETON is a bold and beautiful hybrid of a book.Lauren Groff is an exciting young novelist, gifted with an elegant prose style and a narrative ambition as deep and as serious as the human mysteries she sets out to explore. I was sorry to see this rich and wonderful novel come to an end, and there is no higher success than that. There are monsters, murders, bastards, and ne'er-do-wells almost without number. ![]()
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