Tripticks Hamsters & Guinea Pigs No one knows where they

No one knows where they have come from or where they disappear to each night

compiled in the 1920s by the botanist Professor Elsie Arbour for her niece

We live in an age of upheaval

Not least of which was the UK’s largest mining plant

and Heidi Bivens

Tripticks Hamsters & Guinea Pigs No one knows where theyFirst published in 1972, Ann Quins fourth and final novel was a radical break from the introspective style she had developed in Three and Passages: a declaration of independence from all expectations. Brashly experimental, ribald, and hilarious, Tripticks maps new territories for the novelaspiring to a form of pop art via the drawings of the artist Carol Annand and anticipating the genre busting work of Kathy Acker through collage and gory satire.