My Summer of Love: Film tie-in

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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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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: Media tie-in
Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Published: 18 Oct 2004
ISBN 10: 0747575886
ISBN 13: 9780747575887
Book Overview: This novel is the winner of the Betty Trask Award 2002 The film of the novel was made in 2004, directed by Pawel Pawlikowski (The Last Resort), and stars Natalie Press and Emily Blunt (joint winners of the Evening Standard Best Newcomer Award) and Paddy Considine, it won the Michael Powell Award for Best British Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival 2004 and is winner of Best British Film at the BAFTAs Helen's new deliciously creepy novel The Secrets She Keeps due out March 05

Media Reviews

'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 'A sharp, disturbing and highly original debut novel' Sunday Mirror 'Energetic and blackly comic' The Times 'This is the book to namedrop and a gripping read it is too ... Dark, intelligent and superbly written. Prepare to be seduced ... and shocked' Glamour

Author Bio

Helen Cross was born in 1967 and brought up in East Yorkshire. She currently lives in Birmingham. This is her first novel. Her second, The Secrets She Keeps, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2005.