Needlework
Published on 25. February 2016
224 pages
978-1-910411-77-3 (ISBN)
Description
'I would like to make things beautiful, but a tawdry and repulsive kind of beauty. A braver sort than people have from birth. Sexy zombies on a bicep. That sort of thing.' 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin
Ireland
Target group
Young adult
Interest Age: From 15 years
File size
0,77 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-910411-77-3 (9781910411773)
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Person
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.
Content
- Intro
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- A pretty stain you choose to keep inside you
- A bruising little etch
- The kind of hurt you pay for
- A picture that you love and made you bleed
- A choice you made and now you have to live with
- Indelible identifying marks
- Something that you'll probably regret
- A cool way to be hurt
- A story on your skin that helps you live
- A hidden patch of skin
- A capsule of your younger adult self
- About the Author
