A Kind of Intimacy
Published on 18. July 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-4447-6297-6 (ISBN)
Description
Annie is obese, lonely and hopeful. Armed with self-help books, her cat and a collection of cow-shaped milk jugs, she moves into her new home and sets about getting to know the neighbours, especially the man next door. She ignores her neighbour's inconvenient girlfriend, but it's not quite as easy for Annie to dismiss her own past. As Annie's murky history of violence, secrets and sexual mishaps catches up with her, she cannot see that she has done anything wrong. She's just doing what any good neighbour would do, after all...
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An intense and intriguing novel that never quite lets the reader get comfortable. It understands about the fuzzy boundary between the normal and the strange, and weaves them together in a gripping, ever-darkening narrative * Jenny Diski * who wouldn't kill for a comic gift like Jenn Ashworth's? * <i>Guardian</i * a hugely readable debut novel...about the inability to know others and ourselves * <i>Independent</i> * evokes a damaged mind with the empathy and confidence of Ruth Rendell * <i>The Times</i> * extremely intense and powerfully intriguing * Waterstone's *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hodder & Stoughton
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 192 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4447-6297-6 (9781444762976)
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Jenn Ashworth is the author of the novels A Kind of Intimacy, which won a Betty Trask Award, Cold Light, The Friday Gospels, Fell and Ghosted: A Love Story, which was shortlisted for the Portico Prize. In 2011, she was featured on BBC Two's The Culture Show as one of the twelve Best New British Novelists. She has also written a memoir-in-essays, Notes Made While Falling, which was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. She lives in Lancashire and is a Professor of Writing at Lancaster University.