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Description for Brass
Paperback. Nineteen-year-old Millie O'Reilly is clever, spiky and adored by men yet utterly forlorn. Increasingly disillusioned, she seeks an escape in the underbelly of Liverpool.. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 246. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Nineteen-year-old Millie O'Reilly is clever, spiky and adored by men yet utterly forlorn. Increasingly disillusioned, she seeks an escape in the underbelly of Liverpool...
Shockingly candid and brutally poetic, Helen Walsh has created a portrait of a city and a generation that offers a female perspective on the harsh truth of growing up in today's Britain.
Brass is an unsettling but ultimately compassionate account of the possibilities of identity and the desirability of love.
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841955681
SKU
KAK0002889
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Helen Walsh
Helen Walsh was born in Warrington in 1976 and moved to Barcelona at the age of sixteen. Working as a fixer in the red light district, she saved enough money to put herself through language school. Burnt out and broke, she returned to England a year later and now works with socially excluded teenagers in North Liverpool. Brass is her ... Read more
Reviews for Brass
Walsh's first novel is an amazing insight into female sexuality. Utterly shocking yet completely endearing, this novel is gripping from the first page. Just be warned, it's not for the fainthearted. Raw, sometimes revolting but always compulsive. If you want to find a new sense of what it is like to be a woman in England ... Read more