Fancy Man (novel)

Fancy Man was a once-lost novel by Paul Magrs, which he eventually had published in 2018 by Lethe Press after Magrs had found the original manuscript in his shed.

It was the fourth novel in the Phoenix Court series, though it only was set in the same world as the other stories; it was largly disconnected from the titular Phoenix Court setting, instead being set in Scotland, which, according to this novel, was independent from the United Kingdom.

The short stories Glittering Fag and Baubles were also included at the back of the book.

Publisher's summary
Meet: Wendy, who grows up the youngest of three brash sisters in Blackpool and who leaves home when her mother dies. She moves to Edinburgh under the wing of her vulgar Aunty Anne – whose sights are set on the millions her ex-husband has recently won on the lottery. Wendy spends a happy summer finding herself amongst her new family – Uncle Pat, frail cousin Colin, Captain Simon and Belinda, who believes herself to be an alien abductee. Wendy is intent on finding her elusive fancy man but gets drawn into a series of adventures involving amputees and death cults, Marlene Dietrich and doppelgangers in a city where everybody seems to be writing novels about everybody else… in this queer relocating of ’ ‘’ to the apparently Cool Britannia of the 1990s…

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Characters

 * Wendy
 * Aunty Anne
 * Uncle Pat
 * Colin
 * Captain Colin
 * Belinda
 * Marlene Dietrich
 * Timon

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