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Mine Ozyurt Kilic perceptively demonstrates that Gee blends the tradition of the Victorian social problem novel with experimental literary techniques to examine pressing social and environmental issues in late twentieth century and contemporary Britain. The first full-length study of her fiction, this excellent analysis of Gee's themes, concerns, style, and craft, gives an important British writer the long-overdue critical attention she deserves. -- Dr Emma Parker, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Leicester, UK 20121030 Combining close reading of texts with thematic discussion, Mine Ozyurt Kilic creates a comprehensive and intellectually stimulating account of Maggie Gee's fiction. Her analysis of Gee's work in the context of the condition-of-England novel and related cultural/social topics is perceptively argued. The study, and the interview with Gee it introduces, will prove invaluable to students and researchers. -- Dr Paulina Palmer, author of The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic (University of Wales Press, 2012) 20121030 Mine Ozyurt Kilic's Maggie Gee makes an entirely convincing argument for Gee's importance as one of our most interesting contemporary writers. Kilic contends that Gee's fiction inherits yet rewrites the tradition of the Condition of England novel, and debates the relationship between modernist self-referentiality and ethical engagement to create what she terms a 'self-conscious' realism. The book also carefully elaborates her interest in questions of authorship within the contemporary culture industry, the importance of family and the connections between ecological issues and ethnic and racial rivalries. What runs through all her works, Kilic argues, is an ethics of connection that ultimately transforms the relationship between individuals and their larger collectives. This is a wonderfully rich and well-informed exploration of Maggie Gee's work. -- Susan Watkins, Reader in Twentieth-Century Women's Fiction, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK 20130325
