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Precocious

Precocious

by JoannaBarnard (Author)

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    Hardcover 2015

    $6.72
Synopsis

'Can there be a more unreliable narrator than a teenage girl?' Fiona Palmer is (un)happily married when a chance meeting with her former teacher plunges her headlong into an affair. Intercut with the realities of their adult relationship, Fiona remembers first meeting the enigmatic Henry Morgan as a precocious and lonely fourteen-year-old. Her schoolgirl crush developed into an intense relationship, but it was always one which she controlled. Or did she? This is a controversial, compelling debut novel from an award-winning writer which will appeal to fans of The Girl on a Train.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 336
 Edition: 1st
 Publisher: Ebury Press (Fiction)
Published: 02 Jul 2015
ISBN 10: 1785031228
ISBN 13: 9781785031229
Book Overview: A compelling, clever and controversial debut which will appeal to fans of THE GIRL ON A TRAIN, APPLE TREE YARD, GONE GIRL and NOTES ON A SCANDAL.

Media Reviews
What a fabulous debut!... a writer of great talent, she tackles a difficult and complex subject with such sensitivity and skill -- Louise Douglas Unsettling and compelling... -- Fanny Blake Woman And Home a memorable, powerful and fascinating read. Joanna Barnard has skilfully, subtly and with great compassion written a gripping and provocative tale that deserves to be read -- Liz Robinson LoveReading
Author Bio
Joanna Barnard is an English Literature graduate and works in marketing. In 2014, she won the inaugural Bath Novel Award. A Northerner currently exiled in the South of England, Joanna misses flat vowels, friendly bus drivers and chips and gravy.