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Pigtopia
- Author: Kitty Fitzgerald
- Category: Fiction
- Publisher: Faber(UK)/Miramax(US)
- Pub date: 15 September 2005
- Length: 281 pages
About Pigtopia
Pre-empted by Faber in a sizeable two-book six-figure sterling deal for British Commonwealth rights within 24 hours of submission, PIGTOPIA is a journey into the heart of human darkness, an emotional compendium that is by turns compassionate, mysterious, moving, blackly comic and fantastical – a book that stands comparison as an ANIMAL FARM or a CHARLOTTE’S WEBB for the twenty-first century.
PIGTOPIA chronicles the unlikely friendship that develops between Holly, a lonely and angry adolescent but pre-pubescent girl, and Jack, an older man whose terrible physical deformities isolate him from society. When, on Holly’s fourteenth birthday, Jack persuades her to visit his secret pig cellar and makes her a present of a piglet, she comes to share his beautiful obsession with pigs – a relationship that leads to the eventual destruction of his secret and magical world.
Mostly written in Jack’s own strange but perfectly comprehensible language, PIGTOPIA is a gripping parable that explores the nature of love and the heart-breaking effects of bigotry.
About the Author
Kitty Fitzgerald is an Irish-born playwright who has lived for most of her adult life in Yorkshire and, now, Newcastle. Aside from ‘Dream On’, the prize-winning film that she scripted, Kitty’s plays have been staged all over the North (she is presently writing another on commission for the Theatre Royal in York). Now heavily involved with the Arts Council and the Northern Arts Trust, she has also published two thrillers with Brandon, the Irish press, and a first novel, MARGE, with Sheba in 1985. Her first literary novel, PIGTOPIA, was published by Faber in 2005.