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Thirst

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Description for Thirst Paperback. London, in the frayed heat of summer. Alena is shoplifting shoes when Dave catches her in the act and so begins an unlikely relationship between two people with little in common and everything to lose. But the past is a dark place. And both of them have secrets they've no idea how to live with - or leave behind. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 278.

From the prize-winning author of Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma

Winner of the Prix Femina Etranger


London, in the frayed heat of summer. Alena is shoplifting shoes when Dave catches her in the act and so begins an unlikely relationship between two people with little in common and everything to lose.


But...

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From the prize-winning author of Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma

Winner of the Prix Femina Etranger


London, in the frayed heat of summer. Alena is shoplifting shoes when Dave catches her in the act and so begins an unlikely relationship between two people with little in common and everything to lose.


But the past is a dark place. And both of them have secrets they’ve no idea how to live with – or leave behind. Yet still they find themselves fighting with all they’ve got for a future together. But is love enough?


'Accomplished... Beautiful... Heart-wrenching' Independent on Sunday

Shortlisted for the Prix Femina Prize

Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099589891
SKU
V9780099589891
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Kerry Hudson
Kerry Hudson was born in Aberdeen. Her first novel, Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma, won the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust First Book Award and was shortlisted for an array of prizes including the Guardian First Book Award and the Sky Arts Award. Thirst, her second novel, won the prestigious Prix Femina étranger. Lowborn,...
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Kerry Hudson was born in Aberdeen. Her first novel, Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma, won the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust First Book Award and was shortlisted for an array of prizes including the Guardian First Book Award and the Sky Arts Award. Thirst, her second novel, won the prestigious Prix Femina étranger. Lowborn, her highly acclaimed first work of non-fiction, was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, a Guardian and Spectator Book of the Year and Stylist Book of the Decade. It is followed by Newborn. She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020.

Reviews for Thirst
Accomplished…Beautiful…Heart-wrenching
Independent on Sunday
Accomplished…Beautiful…Heart-wrenching
Independent on Sunday
A fizzing, breathless love story from a terrifically talented storyteller
The List
A tender, off-kilter love story… the novel paints a vivid picture of two very different kinds of misfit, falling in love over one dusty, teeming London summer
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Accomplished…Beautiful…Heart-wrenching
Independent on Sunday
Accomplished…Beautiful…Heart-wrenching
Independent on Sunday
A fizzing, breathless love story from a terrifically talented storyteller
The List
A tender, off-kilter love story… the novel paints a vivid picture of two very different kinds of misfit, falling in love over one dusty, teeming London summer
Observer
Hudson captures the bustle of life in Hackney and Russia with energy and a sharp eye for detail… [Her characters] have love, guts, humour and conscience. This is Love on the Dole 21st-century style
Louise Welsh
Guardian
Tremendously affecting... impressively unostentatious in its instinct for a common story within a city of millions that never gets heard
Claire Allfree
Metro
An unusual love story... a refreshing change from the plethora of middle-class novel fare that simply holds a mirror to the majority of readers
John Harding
Daily Mail
A brilliant, enthralling saga, Thirst presents with such uncommon verisimilitude that scarcely a syllable appears contrived
Joseph Crilly
Irish Times
Kerry Hudson has consolidated her position with this second novel as a writer who is prepared to face the injustices and the grimness of life, and tell of lives usually ignored... Thirst is hardly an easy summer read... but it is probably an essential one
Lesley McDowell
Scotsman
A classy will-they won't-they romance with a difference... Sheer escapism from start to finish
Bella

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