Hot Stew

''Ambitious, clever, brilliant and very funny . . . If Elmet announced the arrival of a bright new voice in British literature, Hot Stew confirms Mozley as a writer of extraordinary empathic gifts ...

''Ambitious, clever, brilliant and very funny . . . If Elmet announced the arrival of a bright new voice in British literature, Hot Stew confirms Mozley as a writer of extraordinary empathic gifts'' Observer ''A dazzling Dickensian tale . . . In an age when so many novelists of Mozley''s generation take refuge in the dystopian, she has reinvigorated large-scale social realism for our times '' Guardian, Book of the Day''Where the mystical, elemental qualities of Elmet earned it comparisons with Lawrence and Hardy, her second novel is a sprawling urban comedy more likely to recall Ben Jonson or