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Needlework

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Description for Needlework Paperback. Powerful, poetic and disturbing, Needlework is a girl's meditation on her efforts to maintain her bodily and spiritual integrity in the face of abuse, violation and neglect. Num Pages: 224 pages, Black and white illustration - 1. BIC Classification: YFB; YFN; YXC; YXFD. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 132 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
A powerful and poetic novel from the multi-award-winning author of Tangleweed and Brine Ces longs to be a tattoo artist and embroider skin with beautiful images. But for now she's just trying to reach adulthood without falling apart. Powerful, poetic and disturbing, Needlework is a girl's meditation on her efforts to maintain her bodily and spiritual integrity in the face...
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A powerful and poetic novel from the multi-award-winning author of Tangleweed and Brine Ces longs to be a tattoo artist and embroider skin with beautiful images. But for now she's just trying to reach adulthood without falling apart. Powerful, poetic and disturbing, Needlework is a girl's meditation on her efforts to maintain her bodily and spiritual integrity in the face of abuse, violation and neglect. `Reading Needlework is similar to getting your first tattoo - it's searing, often painful, but it is an experience you'll never forget.' - Louise O'Neill, author of The Surface Breaks and Asking For It `Needlework is a powerful novel that deserves to be read.' - Sarah Crossan, author of One and We Come Apart `I loved Deirdre Sullivan's Needlework, a novel that is just as sharp and precise as its title suggests.' - Doireann Ni Ghriofa, poet `A modern, broken fairy tale that gets under your skin.' - Tara Flynn, author and comedian

Product Details

Publisher
Little Island
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781910411506
SKU
9781910411506
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2

About Deirdre Sullivan
Deirdre Sullivan is from Galway and is now living in Dublin, where she works as a teacher. Her hugely acclaimed Tangleweed and Brine, a collection of feminist retellings of classic fairytales, won the Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year Award in 2018 and Young Adult Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2017. Previously, her novel Needlework...
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Deirdre Sullivan is from Galway and is now living in Dublin, where she works as a teacher. Her hugely acclaimed Tangleweed and Brine, a collection of feminist retellings of classic fairytales, won the Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year Award in 2018 and Young Adult Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2017. Previously, her novel Needlework had won the Honour Award for Fiction at the Children's Books Ireland Awards in 2017. Sullivan's Primrose Leary series was also widely praised; two of the Prim books were shortlisted for the Children's Books Ireland Awards; and the final one, Primperfect, was also shortlisted for the European Prize for Literature.

Reviews for Needlework
Material handled with all the delicacy of touch we would expect from the most talented of tattooists.
Robert Dunbar
The Irish Times
Beautiful and poetic.
Catherine Doyle
The Irish Times
A brave, necessary book that burned into my heart.
Sarah Webb
The Irish Times...
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Material handled with all the delicacy of touch we would expect from the most talented of tattooists.
Robert Dunbar
The Irish Times
Beautiful and poetic.
Catherine Doyle
The Irish Times
A brave, necessary book that burned into my heart.
Sarah Webb
The Irish Times
So beautiful that you won't want to put it down, even as your heart is breaking for Ces.
Kim Hood
The Irish Times
My number one most adored for this year has to be Deirdre Sullivan's Needlework.
Jacq Murphy
The Irish Times
This is a powerful novel that haunts you long after you have read the final page.
Caroline Busher
The Irish Times
The details of the skill, knowledge and painstaking preparation required are as alluring as the descriptions of delicate, powerful and enduring images, while the idea of blemishing the skin in order to create beauty is a metaphor for Ces's path through life.
The Observer
A word of advice: do not read this book after 2 am as you might start crying - although it's definitely worth it.
The Guardian

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