Cold Light - Brossura

Ashworth, Jenn

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1444707701 ISBN 13: 9781444707700

Casa editrice: Sceptre, 2011

Riassunto

I'm sitting on my couch, watching the local news. There's Chloe's parents, the mayor, the hangers on, all grouped round the pond for the ceremony. It's ten years since Chloe and Carl drowned, and they've finally chosen a memorial - a stupid summerhouse. The mayor has a spade decked out in pink and white ribbon, and he's started to dig. You can tell from their faces that something has gone wrong. But I'm the one who knows straightaway that the mayor has found a body. And I know who it is. This 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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Recensione:

Praise for A Kind of Intimacy (.)

'An intense and intriguing novel that never quite lets the reader get comfortable. It understands about the fuzzy boundary between the normal and the strange, and weaves them together in a gripping, ever-darkening narrative' (Jenny Diski)

'Compulsively readable...who wouldn’t kill for a comic gift like Jenn Ashworth's?' (Guardian)

'A compelling novel about the inability to know others and ourselves' (Independent)

'Evokes a damaged mind with the empathy and confidence of Ruth Rendell' (The Times)

L'autore:

Jenn Ashworth was born in 1982. Her first novel, A Kind of Intimacy, was published in 2009 and won a Betty Trask Award. COLD LIGHT is her second novel. She lives in Preston, Lancashire with her family and writes an award-winning blog at www.jennashworth.co.uk

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• Editore: Sceptre
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1444707701
• ISBN 13: 9781444707700
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352