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The Following Girls
Louise Levene
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Description for The Following Girls
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 188.
When Amanda Baker was 14 she found a letter written by her runaway mother to her unborn child: ‘Dear Jeremy’ it began ‘or Amanda...’. Now Baker is sixteen and sick of her lot as she moves miserably between lessons, her only solace her fifth form gang – the four Mandies – and a low-calorie diet of king-sized cigarettes. That is, until she teams up with Julia Smith, games captain and consummate game player. And so begins a passionate friendship that will threaten her future, menace her sanity and risk the betrayal of everything and everyone she holds dear.
When Amanda Baker was 14 she found a letter written by her runaway mother to her unborn child: ‘Dear Jeremy’ it began ‘or Amanda...’. Now Baker is sixteen and sick of her lot as she moves miserably between lessons, her only solace her fifth form gang – the four Mandies – and a low-calorie diet of king-sized cigarettes. That is, until she teams up with Julia Smith, games captain and consummate game player. And so begins a passionate friendship that will threaten her future, menace her sanity and risk the betrayal of everything and everyone she holds dear.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408842904
SKU
V9781408842904
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Louise Levene
Louise Levene is the author of A Vision of Loveliness, a BBC Book at Bedtime, which was also longlisted for the Desmond Elliott first novel prize, and Ghastly Business. She has been the dance critic of the Sunday Telegraph since 1998 but has also been an advertising copywriter, a window dresser, a radio presenter, an office cleaner, a crossword editor, ... Read more
Reviews for The Following Girls
Fizzes with cracking one-liners, acute observations and acidic social satire. It’s funny, boisterous and sharp ... An acerbic and gloriously evocative portrait of Seventies girlhood … Pitch-perfect
Sunday Telegraph
Simultaneously funny – wryly and sometimes bleakly so – and painful to read. Levene perfectly captures the brutality of adolescence
Sunday Times
An acutely observed and witty ... Read more
Sunday Telegraph
Simultaneously funny – wryly and sometimes bleakly so – and painful to read. Levene perfectly captures the brutality of adolescence
Sunday Times
An acutely observed and witty ... Read more