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21%OFFJenn Ashworth - Cold Light - 9781444707762 - V9781444707762
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Cold Light

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Description for Cold Light Paperback. An unsettling, darkly humorous tale of teenage girls in a predatory adult world, and a cocktail of lies, jealousy and unworldliness that leads to tragedy. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 23. Weight in Grams: 232.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444707762
SKU
V9781444707762
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About Jenn Ashworth
Jenn Ashworth is the author of the novels A Kind of Intimacy, which won a Betty Trask Award, Cold Light, The Friday Gospels, Fell and Ghosted: A Love Story. In 2011, she was featured on BBC Two's The Culture Show as one of the twelve Best New British Novelists. She has also written a memoir-in-essays, Notes Made While Falling, which ... Read more

Reviews for Cold Light
Ashworth's novel is bleak and gritty, painting an uncompromising portrait of teenage life... In the best possible way this novel is an uncomfortable read.
Lucy Scholes, Sunday Times
That most uncommon delight - a literary page-turner.
Sunday Times
Haunting...it is told by the hand of a true storyteller.
Independent
Award-winning Jenn Ashworth leavens a ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Cold Light


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