We Pretty Pieces of Flesh 9781529929515 Paperback

Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Goldsmiths PrizeLonglisted for the Gordon Burn PrizeFrom the winner of the BBC National Short Story AwardThe lives of three teenage girls are torn apart by a secret in this gut-punch of a novel for fans of Eliza Clark and Megan Nolan’It feels essential. You will read nothing else like it this year’GUARDIAN’Blistering, brilliant, savage and smart’EIMEAR McBRIDEAsk anyone non-Northern, theyll only know Donny as punch line of a joke or place they changed trains once ont way to London.But Doncasters also the home of Rach, Shaz and Kel, bezzies since childhood and Donny lasses through and through. They share everything, from blagging their way into nightclubs to trips to the Family Planning clinic when they are late. Never mind that Rach is skeptical of Shazs bolder plots; or that Shaz, who comes from a rougher end of town, feels left behind when the others begin charting a course to uni; or that Kel sometimes feels split in two trying to keep the peace – their friendship is as indestructible as they are. But as they grow up and away from one another, a long-festering secret threatens to rip the trio apart.An astonishing polyphonic debutIrish Times, Books of the YearSublime Roisin ODonnell’Brilliant and original on every level… she is a writer like nobody else’ Elizabeth McCrackenElectrifying Written in what feels like a new and utterly distinctive female voice, it is very hard to put down Mark Haddon