Quicksand Tales

The Misadventures of Keggie Carew

Keggie Carew

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786894090
• Print ISBN:
  9781786894076

Keggie Carew has an unerring instinct for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, of putting her foot in it and making a hash of things. From the repercussions of a missing purse, to boiling a frog, or the holiday when the last thing you could possibly imagine happens, Keggie has been there. She also has an enviable talent for recycling awfulness and turning embarrassment into gold. In prose that will make you laugh, wince and curl your toes, Keggie Carew shares her most humiliating, awkward, uncomfortable, funny, true, terrible and all-too-relatable moments.

Table of contents

• Preface
• The Late Visitor
• The Amateur Waitress
• The Tidy House
• The Exciting Invitation
• The Camel Raid
• The Arrogant Poem
• The Invisible Story
• The Constant Murderer
• The Bad Matchmaker
• The Anticipated Celebration
• The Black Purse
• The Good Uncle
• The Last Thing
• Acknowledgements