“Judas Iscariot’s here, look. Here comes Judas Iscariot . . .”
Nine-year old Sean has never seen anything like what happens on the day Margaret Thatcher takes power and his grandad discovers his uncle voted for her. So begins the start of a family secret and the end of Sean’s idyllic childhood in the industrial Midlands – until, one day, deciding that someone’s got to stop the train of destruction, he sets out for revenge.
A heartbreaking and timely story of a moment of national crisis as felt by one family, How I Killed Margaret Thatcher Main Edition delivers a devastating English twist on the dictator novel.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Praise for Heartland:
‘This is what fiction should be
— David Peace
Similar in scope to Don DeLillo’s Underworld – and such ambition pays ― Observer
Book Description
Why Sean Bull sets out one day to assassinate Margaret Thatcher . . .
About the Author
Anthony Cartwright was born in Dudley in 1973. His first novel The Afterglow won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for several other literary prizes; his second novel Heartland was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was adapted for BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime; his third novel How I Killed Margaret Thatcher Main Edition was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and was a Fiction Uncovered 2013 selection. His collaborative novel with Gian Luca Favetto, Il giorno perduto (The Lost Day) was published in Italy in 2015. He worked as an English teacher in schools in London and the Midlands for over ten years and is currently a First Story writer-in-residence at two schools. He lives in London with his wife and son.
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