num_pages: 352
description: Gert Hardcastle is thirty-something and unlucky in love. She is also estranged from her mother. As Crocodile Soup opens, she thinks she has found "the One" -- the enigmatic Eva, who serves coffee at the cafeteria in the museum where Gert works as a curator cataloging Egyptian artifacts. As Gert embarks on her hilarious and poignant pursuit of Eva, she looks back on her eccentric, childhood through a series of vivid and surreal flashbacks: her obsessive twin, Frank, with whom she communicates telepathically; her father, George, who vanished to Africa to salvage the family crocodile farm; her vain, neglectful mother, Jean; and the family ghost -- a Victorian poet who haunts the attic.In a narrative studded with relentless humor and giddy self-deprecation, Julia Darling introduces an endearing cast of characters whose shared and wayward search for love is irresistible.
language: English
title: Crocodile Soup
titlecomplete: Crocodile Soup
genres: Contemporary, Queer, Own, Adult, Lesbian, Gay, Lesbian Fiction, Fiction, Novels, LGBT
ratings_count: 315
places: United Kingdom
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist
publisher: Ecco