Scapegrace

by JackieGay (Author)

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  2000

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  Scapegrace n. arch.: A mischievous or wayward person, especially a young person or child; a rascal. Five teenage girls who share everything: clothes, hopes, fears and secrets. But the world is changing as fast as the girls and the group fragments, stirring frightening but exhilarating forces. Gina is accused of arson, her brother Johnny of dealing drugs Rose frets over her awakening desires Alice is disturbed by mysterious spirits Cora flaunts her self recklessly, and Ellie knows there is more to growing up than all of this. 21 years later Alice, the centre of this group of 70s 'bad girls', gives up her struggle to conform and returns home. To find her lost friends, map her own identity and make sense of the intense heat she ran from all those years ago. Jackie Gay's first novel is a tenderly sardonic account of growing up in the wrong. A fiery mixture of desire, conflict and hard-won outlaw pride.

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  2002

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  Who is the man sandblasted to death? The police investigate, and DS Singleterry's department destroys evidence and lies to the press. This offhand attitude towards justice - and the murder's sheer brutality - impel Dr Tilt towards a funeral on Stillgate Hill. 'Why did you come?' he asks the other mourner. 'I had to make sure he was dead,' is the reply. Thirty years of hiding have buried nothing.Can retribution ever erase the suffering of past injustice? Where is the difference between victim and murderer? And what is this strange sculpture in flesh? These are just some of the harrowing questions raised by David Fine's impressive debut, set in Sheffield - a city of steel where rivers disappear.