Escape Routes for Beginners

Escape Routes for Beginners

by KiraCochrane (Author)

Synopsis

Trapped on the tiny prison island where her father works as a correctional officer, 13-year-old Rita Mae Jones longs to escape. Rita Mae cannot understand why her alarmingly mismatched parents chose to come to this claustrophobic, brooding place ten years before. Even less can she understand why her emotionally repressed, socially ambitious mother and her fond but ineffectual father came to be married in the first place. But there are many things Rita Mae doesn't understand about her family. A prison riot is the catalyst which kickstarts a series of shocking revelations as the Jones family's disturbing secrets come tumbling into the open - with bizarre, alarming and wholly unexpected results.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Published: 06 Jun 2005

ISBN 10: 0743478428
ISBN 13: 9780743478427
Children’s book age: 12+ Years

Media Reviews
'Surreal and black but with a sarcastic vein of humour that saves the reader from despair, the tale spans three generations of a highly dysfunctional family living in difficult circumstances and with a whole portfolio of secrets and repressions' CITY TO CITIES 'Inventive and deliciously dark' COSMOPOLITAN, July issue 'At 27, Kira Cochrane is the youngest writer up for the Orange Prize for Fiction. ESCAPE ROUTES FOR BEGINNERS is about a girl living on a prison island where her father works' ELLE
Author Bio
Born in Essex in 1977, Kira Cochrane studied American Literature at the Universities of Sussex and California before moving to London to work as a journalist. Now based in Brighton, she writes regularly for The Sunday Times. THE NAKED SEASON is 25-year-old Kira's first novel.