# Fairy Gunmother

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- Book: [Fairy Gunmother](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-pennac/fairy-gunmother) ([Fairy Gunmother.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-pennac/fairy-gunmother.md))
- Authors: [Daniel Pennac](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-pennac)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-18-6046-445-4
- Pages: 256
- Published: 1998-06-18
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A policeman on a mission of mercy is shot dead at point-blank range by a sweet old granny on a frosty morning. The neighbourhood, Paris's bubbling Belleville quarter, is already in uproar because half a dozen other grannies have been found with their shrivelled throats slit. Into this tense situation stumbles Benjamin Malaussène with an overly complicated life that includes his voluptuous red-haired girlfriend, Julie, and his smelly epileptic dog, Julius. Maniacally inventive - some have called it deranged - Pennac's creations in The Fairy Gunmother have achieved cult status all over Europe.