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| Cold Light (Hardback – Second-hand) |
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Full blurb:
Cold Light is the tale of three fourteen-year-old girls and a volatile combination of lies, jealousy and perversion that ends in tragedy. Except the tragedy is even darker and more tangled than their tight-knit community has been persuaded to believe.
Blackly funny and with a surreal edge to its portrait of a northern English town, Jenn Ashworth's gripping novel captures the intensity of girls' friendships and the dangers they face in a predatory adult world they think they can handle. And it shows just how far that world is willing to let sentiment get in the way of the truth.
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First page first lines:
'Between interviews they make us wait upstairs in a classroom. We're left alone but we're aware that in a nearby office we are being discussed. Teachers; her parents and mine; the nurse; social workers...'
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Category: Novel
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Author: Jenn Ashworth
Jenn Ashworth was born in Preston in 1982. After spending much of her time at school playing truant, she studied English at Newnham College, Cambridge. Subsequently finding herself back in Preston as a single mother, she started to write her first novel, A Kind of Intimacy which was published in 2009 and won a Betty Trask Award. She won an Arts Council grant towards writing this her second novel, Cold Light. She continues to live in Preston with her husband, son and daughter.
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Publisher: Sceptre
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Reviews:
'Another cleverly skewed tale told from the self-conscious perspective of an outsider... arrestingly observant... Ashworth's second book confirms that the first was no one-off... her talent could take her a long way' - Guardian
'Ashworth's novel is bleak and gritty, painting an uncompromising portrait of teenage life . . . her prose is equally grim and visceral. In the best possible way this novel is an uncomfortable read.' - Lucy Scholes, Sunday Times
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| Book code: BTD081 |
| Price: GBP £ 4.00 |
| USD $ 6.50 |
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