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The Literary Review, which set up the prize 23 years ago, announced this morning that Ellis’s debut novel The Butcher’s Hook, a dark, twisted story of a girl in 18th-century London, was one of six contenders for the award for “the most egregious passage of sexual description in a work of fiction”.
Ellis, who presented Blue Peter in the 1980s, drew praise for the debut when it was published – “a cross between Fanny Burney’s Evelina and US crime drama Dexter,” found the Observer. But the panel of five judges at the Literary Review singled it out for a surprisingly agricultural passage in which Ellis’s heroine Anne consummates her passion for butcher’s apprentice Fub.
“‘Anne,’ he says, stopping and looking down at me. I am pinned like wet washing with his peg.
‘Till now, I thought the sweetest sound I could ever hear was cows chewing grass.
But this is better.’ He sways and we listen to the soft suck at the exact place we meet.
Then I move and put all thoughts of livestock out of his head.”
Ellis, who presented Blue Peter in the 1980s, drew praise for the debut when it was published – “a cross between Fanny Burney’s Evelina and US crime drama Dexter,” found the Observer. But the panel of five judges at the Literary Review singled it out for a surprisingly agricultural passage in which Ellis’s heroine Anne consummates her passion for butcher’s apprentice Fub.
“‘Anne,’ he says, stopping and looking down at me. I am pinned like wet washing with his peg.
‘Till now, I thought the sweetest sound I could ever hear was cows chewing grass.
But this is better.’ He sways and we listen to the soft suck at the exact place we meet.
Then I move and put all thoughts of livestock out of his head.”
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wow I've got a right boner now
 and no Bito I don't want a group hug |
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I will accept good or bad at my age. ANYTHING WILL DO!!!
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I am pinned like wet washing with his peg.
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Then I move and put all thoughts of livestock out of his head.”
Then she discovered he was Welsh  |
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An odd thing about internet chatboards, if you're deaf, is continually discovering there are things which make a sound that you'd assumed all your life were silent.
"Cows chewing grass" is one. "The soft suck at the exact place you meet" is another. If I were ever able to hear the latter, I think I'd just burst out laughing. |