What a Carve Up!

About this book

A brilliant noir farce a dystopian vision of Britain a family history and the story of an obsession. Michael is a lonely rather pathetic writer obsessed by the film What A Carve Up! in which a mad knifeman cuts his way through the inhabitants of a decrepit stately pile as the thunder rages. Inexplicably he is commissioned to write the family history of the Winshaws an upper class Yorkshire clan whose members have a finger in every establishment pie from arms dealing to art dealing from politics to banking to the popular press and factory farming. During his researches Michael realizes that the Winshaws have cast a blight on his life as they have on Britain. His confidence his sexual and personal identity begin to reform. In a climax set in the Winshaws family seat the novel turns into the film What A Carve Up! as a murderous maniac stalks the family and Michael discovers the significance of Shirley Eatons lingerie.