Penance

An utterly chilling, compulsive story of a murder among teenagers, on the eve of the historic Brexit vote, by a major new voice in British fiction.

Informationen zum Autor Eliza Clark is the author of Boy Parts (2020) and Penance (2023) and She's Always Hungry (2024). In 2020, Boy Parts was Blackwell's Fiction book of the year, and in 2022 Eliza was chosen as a finalist for the Women's Prize Futures Award for writers under thirty-five. In 2023, she was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. She also writes for film and television. A stage adaptation of Boy Parts premiered at Soho Theatre in October 2023. Klappentext It's been years since the horrifying murder of a teenage girl in a northern seaside town. In this mock true crime story, Eliza Clark constructs Interviews with witnesses, family and correspondence with the killers themselves. the result is a riveting snapshot of lives rocked by tragedy, and a town left in turmoil - but how much of it is true?

Autorentext
Eliza Clark is the author of Boy Parts (2020) and Penance (2023) and She's Always Hungry (2024). In 2020, Boy Parts was Blackwell's Fiction book of the year, and in 2022 Eliza was chosen as a finalist for the Women's Prize Futures Award for writers under thirty-five. In 2023, she was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. She also writes for film and television. A stage adaptation of Boy Parts premiered at Soho Theatre in October 2023.

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Eliza Clark is a genius with voice and a master of flipped expectations. Penance astonished me with its breadth, wit and confidence. A wickedly clever deep dive into the nastier corners of the national psyche - you've never read anything like this. Julia Armfield