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careless: longlisted for the women's prize 2022
[Paperback - 2022]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Women Fiction
Additional Category: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Orion Uk | ISBN: 9781398700109 | Pages: 336
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**Longlisted for the Women s Prize for Fiction 2022!** A COSMOPOLITAN, BBC, STYLIST, DAILY MAIL, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING and GUARDIAN BEST BOOK PICK! Astounding. Heart-breaking but hopeful, and a fresh new voice PANDORA SYKES Moving and beautifully written LIBBY PAGE A rare new talent THE GUARDIAN A book that deserves to be a huge hit STYLIST The literary equivalent of gold dust BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH *** 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...

Kirsty Capes works in publishing and, as a care leaver, is an advocate for better representation for care-experienced people in the media. She recently completed her PhD which investigates female-centric care narratives in contemporary fiction, under the supervision of 2019 Booker prize-winner, Bernardine Evaristo. Careless is her first novel.

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