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 Nikki Gemmell
Nikki Gemmell has written four novels, Shiver, Cleave, Lovesong, The Bride Stripped Bare and The Book Of
Rapture, and one non-fiction book, Pleasure: An Almanac for the Heart.
Her work has been internationally critically acclaimed and translated into many languages.
In France she's been described as a female Jack Kerouac, in Australia as one of the most original and engaging authors of her generation and in the US as one of the few truly original voices to emerge in a long time.
The French literary review "Lire" has included her in a list of what it calls the fifty most important writers in the world - the ones it believes will have a significant influence on the literature of the 21st century. The criteria for selection included a very individual voice and unmistakeable style, as well as an original choice of subject. Nikki Gemmell was selected along with such novelists as Rick Moody, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Safran Froer, Rohinton Mistry, Tim Winton, Colum McCann, Michel Faber and Hari Kunzru among others.
Born in Wollongong, Australia, she now lives in London.
 The Book of Rapture according to Nikki Gemmell, takes as its cue Salman Rushdie's rallying cry for novelists... "A writer's work is to name the unnameable, to point to frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep."
Recent reviews: ‘That it is written in much the same, passionate, provocative style as Bride should come as no surprise to Gemmell fans. Her writing is powerful and heartrending, as she delves into the working of human relationships, love and family’ wrote the Courier Mail
‘At the heart of the book is a sweet, thoughtful fable about the innocence of children and the power of familial love’ wrote the Sydney Morning Herald
‘Gemmell certainly knows how to be controversial, and this book will generate discussion’ wrote the Daily Telegraph
Searing, provocative and unputdownable, The Book of Rapture is a novel of our time that's every bit as passionate and driven as The Bride Stripped Bare. It will compel, seduce and haunt you.
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