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The Following Girls

The Following Girls

by Louise Levene (Author)

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    Paperback 2015

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Synopsis

When Amanda Baker was 14 she found a letter written by her runaway mother to her unborn child: `Dear Jeremy' it began `or Amanda...'. Now Baker is sixteen and sick of her lot as she moves miserably between lessons, her only solace her fifth form gang - the four Mandies - and a low-calorie diet of king-sized cigarettes. That is, until she teams up with Julia Smith, games captain and consummate game player. And so begins a passionate friendship that will threaten her future, menace her sanity and risk the betrayal of everything and everyone she holds dear.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 272
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Published: 23 Apr 2015
ISBN 10: 1408842904
ISBN 13: 9781408842904
Book Overview: For fans of An Education and My Summer of Love - a powerful and biting social satire about a girl struggling to find freedom in 1970s suburbia

Media Reviews
Fizzes with cracking one-liners, acute observations and acidic social satire. It's funny, boisterous and sharp ... An acerbic and gloriously evocative portrait of Seventies girlhood ... Pitch-perfect * Sunday Telegraph *
Simultaneously funny - wryly and sometimes bleakly so - and painful to read. Levene perfectly captures the brutality of adolescence * Sunday Times *
An acutely observed and witty portrayal of the school exploits and growing pains of a 1970s teenager ... Knowing and funny, this is St Trinian's for grown-ups ***** * The Lady *
A clever and extremely entertaining study of teenage claustrophobia * Independent *
Reflective, bittersweet and frequently funny * Metro *
Levene's sharply observed comedy mixes affectionate satire of the stylistic oddities of the time with an invigorating sparkle of real dislike for the petty tyrannies of parental and pedagogical authority * Evening Standard *
Author Bio
Louise Levene is the author of A Vision of Loveliness, a BBC Book at Bedtime, which was also longlisted for the Desmond Elliott first novel prize, and Ghastly Business. She has been the dance critic of the Sunday Telegraph since 1998 but has also been an advertising copywriter, a window dresser, a radio presenter, an office cleaner, a crossword editor, a university tutor, a college professor and a saleslady. She lives in London with her husband and their two children.