Jenn Ashworth

Cold Light

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An unsettling, darkly humorous tale of teenage girls in a predatory adult world, and a cocktail of lies, jealousy and unworldliness that leads to tragedy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton / Sceptre
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9781444707762
• ISBN-10: 1444707760
• Artikelnr.: 34002760

Autorenporträt

Jenn Ashworth was born in 1982 in Preston. She studied English at Cambridge and since then has gained an MA from Manchester University, trained as a librarian and run a prison library in Lancashire. She now lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Lancaster. Her first novel, A Kind of Intimacy, was published in 2009 and won a Betty Trask Award. In 2011 her second, Cold Light, was published by Sceptre and she was chosen by BBC's The Culture Show as one of the twelve Best New British Novelists. In 2013 her third novel, The Friday Gospels, was published to resounding critical acclaim. She lives in Lancaster with her husband, son and daughter.

Rezensionen

Ashworth's novel is bleak and gritty, painting an uncompromising portrait of teenage life... In the best possible way this novel is an uncomfortable read. Lucy Scholes, Sunday Times