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Women of the streets: Hot Stew, by Fiona Mozley, reviewed

13 March 2021

9:00 AM

13 March 2021

9:00 AM

Hot Stew Fiona Mozley

John Murray, pp.320, 16.99

For a novel set partly in a Soho brothel, Hot Stew is an oddly bloodless affair. Tawdry characters drift in and out of each other’s lives but rarely seem to capture the author’s full imagination. Fiona Mozley’s first novel, Elmet,concerned a self-sufficient family living in Yorkshire and occupying ‘a strange, sylvan otherworld’, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2017.

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