Books by Dexter Petley
One True Void
Dexter Petley’s fourth novel is a searing infra-red vision of 1970s Britain and the tragedies of class and tradition. Written in typically blistering language, One True Void tells how seventeen year-old Henry Chambers turns bleakness into beauty, anarchy and hysteria into poetic redemption, and takes apart the whole life of a small Kent village as he goes.
“delivers scene after scene of exhilarating rage, tenderness, lyricism and pitch-black comedy … Petley writes, with a bittersweet mix of stifling intimacy and sizzling exasperation, about the English rural working-class of the early 1970s – no longer the peasant stalwarts of Hardy or Lawrence but the pikey scum that all now feel at liberty to loathe”
Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
UK Rights: Two Ravens Press
Other Rights: JBA