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Penance: a Novel
[Paperback - 2023]
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Category: Literature
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Faber And Faber Uk | ISBN: 9780571371778 | Pages: 304
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A GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST 2023 ‘One of the summer’s most talked-about books.’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘An unmissable banger that you need to preorder immediately.’ ALICE SLATER ‘A meta-meditation on the mysteries, malice, and minutiae of adolescence.’ TOM BENN ‘You’ve never read anything like this.’ JULIA ARMFIELD Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you listen to a podcast? Did the hosts make jokes? Did you see the pictures of the body? Did you look for them? It’s been nearly a decade since the horrifying murder of sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson rocked Crow-on-Sea, and the events of that terrible night are now being published for the first time. That story is Penance, a dizzying feat of masterful storytelling, where Eliza Clark manoeuvres us through accounts from the inhabitants of this small seaside town. Placing us in the capable hands of journalist Alec Z. Carelli, Clark allows him to construct what he claims is the ‘d

Eliza Clark has relocated from her native Newcastle back to London, where she previously attended Chelsea College of Art. In 2018, she received a grant from New Writing North’s ‘Young Writers’ Talent Fund’. Her debut novel, Boy Parts, was released by Influx Press in July 2020, and it has since been Blackwell’s Fiction Book of the Year. In 2022, Eliza…

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