The Bitch Goddess Notebook

The Bitch Goddess Notebook

by Martha O ' Connor (Author)

Synopsis

In a small-town high school in 1988, three misfit girls join forces to form the Bitch Goddesses, a take-no-prisoners gang of fierce teenage rebellion. Rennie, the stunningly attractive straight-A student, finds herself way out of her depth when she embarks on an affair with her married teacher. Cherry builds a shrine to Princess Diana in her bedroom while nursing her hippy mother through her coke-fuelled rages. Amy tears up her cheerleader's uniform while her drunken parents concentrate on presenting a facade of perfect family life to the outside world. The three girls swear to stick together, whatever life throws at them, until one night when something so horrific happens it shatters their friendship forever. Fifteen years on, Rennie is a writer living in New York, struggling to keep her life on track and hiding an erotic obsession. In her Lake Superior show-home, a heavily pregnant Amy is certain that her husband is cheating on her and that she is jinxed by her past. Cherry, a model patient in an institution, suffers horrific nightmares of four red letters carved on human skin. The Bitch Goddesses may have grown up, but one way or another they must come to terms with a shared past...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: Open market ed
Publisher: Orion
Published: 01 Dec 2005

ISBN 10: 0752878077
ISBN 13: 9780752878072
Book Overview: 'Don't disbelieve the hype. THE BITCH GODDESS NOTEBOOK by Martha O'Connor is as good a debut as it's cracked up to be. It's edgy, smart and sexy, like its heroines' Tatler. X-rated, anti-chick lit novel - commercial, intelligent, tender and shocking. Terrific suspense maintained right until its heart-stopping, heart-breaking climax. 'Astonishing and truly remarkable ... tough, subtle, tense, authentic and very beautiful. If this isn't really Alice Sebold, Donna Tartt or Barbara Vine writing under a pseudonym, then Martha O'Connor is a huge new talent who is already about as good as it gets' Lee Child 'If you loved Heathers and The Craft, this is for you - it's dark, compelling and not for the faint-hearted' Heat. 'There's a buzz about this book that tells us it's going to be huge this summer. And as the title suggests, it's more bitch lit than chick lit ... The novel flits back and forth from schooldays to adulthood, where none of the girls remains in contact but all share a very dark secret. Believe us when we say you won't be able to rest until you find out what it is' Glamour.

Author Bio
Martha O'Connor is an internationally acclaimed poet. Before turning to writing full-time, she was by turns a shop assistant, waitress, latte-maker and eighth-grade teacher. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and children.