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My Name is Denise Forrester

My Name is Denise Forrester

by NickBrooks (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

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Synopsis

Denise Forrester is a feisty, troublesome, spirited girl with her childhood eating disorder (only white things basically) and her teenage crushes. She is abandoned by her mother and tormented by her sister, hopeless at school but despite all that original and memorable and identifiable. She's the archetypal strange child, growing up in Glasgow tenements in the 80s with her indulgent and eccentric grandmother, while her policeman father and strategically ill mother battle it out at home. In to the story of Denise is woven other stories, fictions spun by her grandmother about witches and fallen women, stories of the streets that Denise and her grandmother stalk, together, murder and daily violence forming a disconcerting background to shopping and school.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 272
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 02 Mar 2006
ISBN 10: 0753819015
ISBN 13: 9780753819012
Book Overview: Like the UEA, the Glasgow Creative Writing Course is producing some of the finest debut talent in the UK - and Nick Brooks is one of these emerging stars A first novel by a young Scot writing in the footsteps of Alan Warner '[T]he best thing I've read in ages... It made me laugh out loud on the Underground' Louise Welch 'Loads of assurance, buckets of colour, packed with beautifully etched observation and piles of raw honesty - this is a debut novel that keeps you wide-eyed with admiration...a compact gem' Scotsman 'There is a witch's heart beating at the bottom of Nick Brooks' debut novel' Big Issue 'Compelling...full of quirky characters' Glasgow Evening Times

Author Bio
Nick Brooks was born and still lives in Glasgow. He has a first in English from the University of Glasgow and has recently completed its postgraduate degree in Creative Writing.