My Summer of Love

My Summer of Love

by HelenCross (Author)

Synopsis

It's 1984 and one of the hottest summers Yorkshire's seen. It's the kind of woozy heat to lose your mind in. Mona is fifteen years old. She's a drinker, a thief and a fruit machine addict. Things are already going badly in the pub where she lives with her obese step-brother PorkChop. But when Mona meets posh Tamsin Fakenham, a sassy girl with beautiful breasts, an actress mother and a sister who's died of starvation, things very quickly get much worse...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 03 Jun 2002

ISBN 10: 0747557829
ISBN 13: 9780747557821
Book Overview: ' I think it's brilliant' Julie Burchill 'A hand grenade of a novel ... Cross depicts a world every bit as shocking, and as violent, as the one Anthony Burgess created in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE' DAILY MAIL 'energetic and blackly comic' THE TIMES

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1984 and 15-year-old Mona is a drinker, a thief and a fruit machine addict. Things are going badly in the pub where she lives with her obese step-brother but when she meets posh Tamsin, a sassy girl with beautiful breasts, an actress mother and a sister who dies of starvation, things quickly get very much worse.A highly charged and critically acclaimed debut novel.
Author Bio
Helen Cross was born in 1967 and brought up in East Yorkshire. She currently lives in Birmingham. This is her first novel.