Lots of film interest in Fanny & Stella
26 Jan 2013

Neil McKenna’s Fanny & Stella, just published by Faber, has got off to a cracking start with a fierce bidding war for drama rights and a succession of excellent reviews including :

You would need to be a very dull - or prim - dog indeed not to find this a terrifically entertaining story. Neil McKenna has thrown himself into it with unfettered glee. If the opportunity arises to describe an anal fistula - and it does, frequently - he does not shirk it. [McKenna is] a sufficiently crisp, colourful and funny writer.’ Evening Standard

http://www.standard.co.uk/arts/book/great-drag-queens-of-their-day-8464731.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pzqzy from about 53 minutes in.

Neil was also on the BBC World Service ‘World Update’ at 11am today.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0137xh9

‘Rich and absorbing … McKenna has done a tremendous job of recreating Victorian London’s gay subculture, weaving newspaper reports, police documents and contemporary diaries into a jolly rollicking narrative. It would be an understatement to call it a colourful book … Fanny and Stella is a cracking read.’ The Sunday Times

‘McKenna provides what is certainly the definitive account of the Boulton/Park story … McKenna lays bare a fascinating tapestry of interrelated personal histories.’History Today