We're thrilled to share Drunken Driving by Martina Evans (Carcanet) as our Summer Choice.
Drunken Driving is the funny and subversive sequel to Martina Evans’s narrative poem The Coming Thing, set ten years on. Imelda, now a young mother, is married to Carl. When she gets a job in the X-ray Department at Pentonville Prison and learns to drive, her previous preoccupations with life and death and abuse of power are intensified within the prison walls.
"Drunken Driving explores control from multiple angles asking who holds power, who merely simulates it, and who ultimately pays when systems collapse." — Victoria Kennefick, PBS Selector
The sonnets are ‘cuffed’ by quotes from Dracula and prison security rules, providing ironic commentary on the main narrative exploring issues of control. This timely collection delivers dark comedy as it raises serious questions about human society during the present international prison crisis, with the UK prison system on the verge of collapse.
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