Women’s Hour - Tapa blanda

Is Sidney Pyke, Professor of Media Studies and Green Party councillor, guilty of raping the arch feminist Dr Bess Hooper in the university swimming pool during the sacrosanct 'women's hour'? Sidney has a conspiracy theory, not unconnected to the fact that he has recently insulted the Minister for Higher Education, poured scorn on Radical Women, outraged local dog lovers and not only deeply offended his own wife but a succession of very formidable mistresses...

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'Highly entertaining. Characters and plot roam freely out of the lecture hall and into the intertwined worlds of book publishing, newspapers, television and international media conglomerates ... all of which gives scope for richly comic and brilliantly marshalled set-pieces. Words are the finely-honed weapons that he lends his protagonists, and language the spoils for which they do battle in this funny, cleverly executed novel of ideas.'
INDEPENDENT

'The combination of elegy and energy, of savagery and gentleness, of laughter and muted lament gives 'The Women's Hour' its distinctive quality.'
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

'Caute plays artfully with the idea of a "hero" whose fantasies are indistinguishable from fact. Pyke engages our sympathies and his verbal duet with the philistine Minister for Education is a triumph.'
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT