Toto Among The Murderers

Author: Sally J Morgan

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  • : 9781529300390
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  • : 2011
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  • : English
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Description

It is 1973 and Jude - known to her friends as Toto - has just graduated from art school and moves into a house in a run-down part of Leeds. Jude is a chaotic wild child who flirts with the wrong kind of people, drinks too much and gets stoned too often. Never happy to stay in one place for very long, her restlessness takes her on hitchhiking jaunts up and down the country. Her best friend, Nel, is the only steady influence Jude has but Nel's life isn't as perfect as it seems. Reports of attacks on women punctuate the news and Jude takes off again, suffocated by an affair she has been having with a married woman. But what she doesn't realise is that the violence is moving ever closer to home: there is Janice across the road who lives in fear of being beaten up again by her pimp and Nel, whose perfect life is coming undone at her boyfriend's hands. At the same time infamous murderers, Fred and Rosemary West, are stalking the country, on the lookout for girls like Jude.

Awards

Winner 2022 Portico Prize for Literature — a British prize given to a work that evokes the "spirit of the North of England". Longlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction - Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021

Author description

Sally J Morgan was born in the Welsh mining town of Abertyleri and describes her childhood as nomadic — following her father's career in the motor trade across Britain. Sally graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and eventually moved to New Zealand where she is now a professor at Massey University in Wellington. Mostly set in Leeds and Sheffield in 1973, Toto Among The Muderers is based on the author’s own experience of being offered a lift by Fred and Rosemary West.