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Jess Kidd - Himself, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Del i serien Canongate Books

Himself

Av Jess Kidd

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Beskrivning
A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2016Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2017Longlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 20171950. A teenage girl is brutally murdered in a forest. But, somehow, her baby survives.1976. A mysterious and charming young man returns to the remote coastal village of Mulderrig, seeking answers about the mother who, it was said, had abandoned him on the steps of a Dublin orphanage.With the help of its oldest and most eccentric inhabitant, he will force the village to give up its ghosts. Nothing, not even the dead, can stay buried forever.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-01-02
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
  • Vikt: 246 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Canongate Books
  • Antal sidor: 368
  • Förlag: Canongate Books
  • ISBN: 9781786899835
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards - Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year 2016 (Ireland)
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Jess Kidd was brought up in London as part of a large family from County Mayo. Her first novel, Himself, was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards in 2016 and she was the winner of the Costa Short Story Award in the same year. In 2017, Himself was shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and longlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger. Her second novel, The Hoarder, was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award in association with Listowel Writers' Week'. Both books were BBC Radio 2 Book Club picks.@JessKiddHerself | jesskidd.com

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Kidd's brilliantly bold debut mixes up murder and mayhem with the eerily supernatural. It's a tender, violent and funny story told in prose that is lyrical, lush and hugely imaginative. Utterly unputdownable

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