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Sto caricando le informazioni... Carelessdi Kirsty Capes
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A teenager negotiates her way through the care system in this accessible yet profound debut...Teenage heroines are ten a penny, but every now and again one will saunter up, offer you a fag, and hit you with her story right between the eyes...But although Careless is a coming of age story written in a very accessible style, it is suffused with an adult understanding of relationship dynamics and, perhaps most viscerally, the struggles young women can face to take ownership of their own bodies...Capes is a care leaver herself and has a PhD in care narratives in contemporary fiction, which was supervised by Bernardine Evaristo. The Booker-prize winner’s mentorship has no doubt been beneficial ....I’m unashamed to say that this novel made me weep and, despite not containing an ounce of didacticism, it offers profound insight into the impact of conditional love on a “looked-after” child.....Capes is a rare new talent, and she has written something very special here: a novel that transforms, with the lightest of touches. Premi e riconoscimenti
A COSMOPOLITAN, BBC, STYLIST, DAILY MAIL, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING and GUARDIAN BEST BOOK PICK FOR 2021! 'Astounding. Heart-breaking but hopeful, and a fresh new voice' PANDORA SYKES 'Moving and beautifully written' LIBBY PAGE 'Made me laugh and cry in equal measure' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'A book that deserves to be a huge hit' STYLIST 'The literary equivalent of gold dust' BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH 'An incredible debut novel. Kirsty Capes is one to watch' RED 'A powerful coming-of-age debut' MARIE CLAIRE 'Vigorous and insightful' DAILY MAIL THE MUST-READ DEBUT OF THE YEAR - OUT NOW! Sometimes it's easy to fall between the cracks... At 3.04 p.m. on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess finds out she's pregnant. She could tell her social worker Henry, but he's useless. She should tell her foster mother, Lisa, but she won't understand. She really ought to tell Boy, but she hasn't spoken to him in weeks. Bess knows more than anyone that love doesn't come without conditions. But this isn't a love story... Praise for Careless: 'Vivid, bold and beautifully observed' ABBIE GREAVES, author of The Silent Treatment 'Moving and beautifully-written - a voice and a story that needs to be heard' LIBBY PAGE, author of The Lido 'A story of every day, that is never told. Uplifting and simultaneously heart-breaking' ANSTEY HARRIS, author of The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton 'A thought-provoking and compelling coming-of-age story, with a fearless and funny protagonist in Bess' RICHARD ROPER, author of Something to Live For 'Real, raw, heart-wrenching and so wonderfully written. A truly honest coming-of-age story. I laughed, cried, squirmed and couldn't stop reading' JESSICA RYN, author of The Extraordinary Hope of Dawn Brightside 'Heroic and powerful, but also tender; this is such an important novel' CHARLOTTE MENDELSON, author of Daughters of Jerusalem 'The literary equivalent of gold dust' BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH 'So good I'm lying in a tepid bath because my 15 minutes reading turned into 45. What a voice!' AMY BEASHEL, author of The Sky is Mine Such an elegant and empathic book, with characters I feel I've known forever. A portrait of how it feels to be young, brazen and terrified' JESSICA MOOR, author of Keeper Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I'm glad that the 2022 Women's Fiction Longlist brought this book to my attention. ( )