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Middle England, mid-1980's. The kind of place where nothing ever happens. Until the discovery of a body: a teenager called Robert has been killed, down by the pools, his body floating on the surface.
Half a dozen lives come unravelled: Rob's mother, Kath, has been making the best of her second-chance second marriage after her first husband was tragically killed. Howard, Rob's father, has been clinging to family life without connecting with either Kath or Rob. Joanna, the teen queen of nowheresville, has been looking for a way out and she hoped Rob was her ticket. And then there's Shane, with the backward brain and the brute strength, who has an unhealthy fixation on Joanna.
The Pools subtly reveals the tensions and terrors that underpin ordinary lives, causing them to spiral suddenly out of control.
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A complex anatomy of a murder, The Pools brilliantly evokes the sickening recognition of a wasteful death. Bethan Roberts is a fearless writer whose first novel raises questions about fate and responsibility that remain with the reader long after the last page has been turned. A compelling debut. --Louise Welsh
An unsettling and disturbing tale of awakening sexuality and predatory parents. --Patricia Duncker
A tense thriller that reminded me of Julie Myerson's Something Might Happen. --Eve Magazine
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Bethan Roberts was born in Oxford and brought up in nearby Abingdon. She has MAs from Sussex and Chichester universities and teaches creative writing at Chichester and for the Open University. Roberts was awarded a Jerwood/Arvon Young Writers' Prize for her debut novel, The Pools.
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- Data di pubblicazione2007
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