Three burials

a the times best crime book of 2024 'extraordinary . . . both a madcap crime caper and a savage state-of-the-nation novel . . . anders lustgarten writes like a man possessed: bursting with energy' the times an electrifying wild ride of a debut novel from award-winning playwright anders lustgarten meet cherry, a bandit queen on the run, driving a pink soft-top convertible through the badlands of south-east england. she's never felt more thelma & louise in her life - except there are three of them in the car and one of them is dead. how did a head nurse and mother of two end up driving a handcuffed policeman and the corpse of a murdered refugee on a journey to find justice? pursued by a racist, roid-raged, shaven-headed officer of the law - not to mention by her husband and daughter - what else can a woman with a conscience do in modern britain? thrilling, radical and darkly comedic, anders lustgarten's open-hearted storm of a book explores pressing political concerns with clear-sightedness and holds a mirror up to contemporary britain. 'an irreverent, tragicomic tour de force as absurd and as urgent as hope . . . lustgarten's novel is comedy as weapon and deep moral inquiry' guardian