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...
The prize-winning debut by Jenn Ashworth, which led her to be picked as one of the 12 Best New British Novelists by BBC TV's The Culture Show in 2011, a blackly funny and compelling tale of obsession, misplaced passion and one seriously mixed-up young woman - the kind of neighbour you would not wish on your worst enemy.
About the Author
Jenn Ashworth was born in 1982 in Preston. She studied English at Cambridge and since then has gained an MA from Manchester University, trained as a librarian and run a prison library in Lancashire. She now lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Lancaster. Her first novel, A Kind of Intimacy, was published in 2009 and won a Betty Trask Award. In 2011 her second, Cold Light, was published by Sceptre and she was chosen by BBC's The Culture Show as one of the twelve Best New British Novelists. In 2013 her third novel, The Friday Gospels, was published to resounding critical acclaim. She lives in Lancaster with her husband, son and daughter.
Reviews
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? * Guardiana hugely readable debut novel...about the inability to know others and ourselves * Independent *
evokes a damaged mind with the empathy and confidence of Ruth Rendell * The Times *
extremely intense and powerfully intriguing * Waterstone's *
Book Information
ISBN 9781444762976
Author Jenn Ashworth
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Sceptre
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Weight(grams) 200g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 128mm * 26mm
The prize-winning debut by Jenn Ashworth, which led her to be picked as one of the 12 Best New British Novelists by BBC TV's The Culture Show in 2011, a blackly funny and compelling tale of obsession, misplaced passion and one seriously mixed-up young woman - the kind of neighbour you would not wish on your worst enemy.
About the Author
Jenn Ashworth was born in 1982 in Preston. She studied English at Cambridge and since then has gained an MA from Manchester University, trained as a librarian and run a prison library in Lancashire. She now lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Lancaster. Her first novel, A Kind of Intimacy, was published in 2009 and won a Betty Trask Award. In 2011 her second, Cold Light, was published by Sceptre and she was chosen by BBC's The Culture Show as one of the twelve Best New British Novelists. In 2013 her third novel, The Friday Gospels, was published to resounding critical acclaim. She lives in Lancaster with her husband, son and daughter.
Reviews
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? * Guardiana hugely readable debut novel...about the inability to know others and ourselves * Independent *
evokes a damaged mind with the empathy and confidence of Ruth Rendell * The Times *
extremely intense and powerfully intriguing * Waterstone's *
Book Information
ISBN 9781444762976
Author Jenn Ashworth
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Sceptre
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Weight(grams) 200g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 128mm * 26mm
