M G Sanchez

The Escape Artist M G Sanchez

"So this, more or less, was how things stood for me at the end of 1981. I was twenty-nine years old and I was still on the lowest rung of the civil service pay scale and I lived alone in a three-bedroom government flat with twenty-four different sized statues of the Sacred Heart of Jesus...." Spanning over ten years and moving between locations as different as Cambridge, Venice and Gibraltar, THE ESCAPE ARTIST is a novel about loneliness and broken friendship and what it means to be Gibraltarian in a rapidly changing world. "Fascinating and highly readable. Sanchez is a new voice from the old world of Britain and its fading Empire." John A. Stotesbury, Professor in Postcolonial Literatures, Helsinki, Finland "M. G. Sanchez writes with feeling and heart." Emigdi Subirats i Sebastià, Catalonian novelist, poet, biographer and translator "Through a deft and innovative style M. G. Sanchez brings to the fore a strong sense of Gibraltarian identity."Dr Esterino Adami, Department of Humanities, University of Turin "Well worth reading, because no-one else is writing like this about modern Gibraltar. M. G. Sanchez is the real McCoy."Nicholas Rankin, British Historian and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature