Levitation for Beginners - Dunn, Suzannah
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Erscheint vorauss. 6. Februar 2025
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'This is a novel about everything and nothing, sour and melancholy, with elements of sheer comedy and almost unbearable beauty' Guardian Book of the Day It's 1972 and ten-year-old Deborah is living a ten-year-old life: butterscotch angel delight and Raleigh chopper bikes, Clunk Click and Crackajack, Jackanory, flares and ponchos. But new girl Sarah-Jayne breezes into school, pretty as a picture, full of gossip and speculation as well as unlikely but thrilling stories about levitation. The other girls are dazzled but Deborah is wary. That same week, eighteen-year-old brickie Sonny turns up on…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
'This is a novel about everything and nothing, sour and melancholy, with elements of sheer comedy and almost unbearable beauty' Guardian Book of the Day It's 1972 and ten-year-old Deborah is living a ten-year-old life: butterscotch angel delight and Raleigh chopper bikes, Clunk Click and Crackajack, Jackanory, flares and ponchos. But new girl Sarah-Jayne breezes into school, pretty as a picture, full of gossip and speculation as well as unlikely but thrilling stories about levitation. The other girls are dazzled but Deborah is wary. That same week, eighteen-year-old brickie Sonny turns up on her doorstep with a stray tortoise and begins an unlikely friendship with her young widowed mum. That's bad enough, Deborah thinks, but then Sonny starts work on a site opposite the school and Sarah-Jayne decides he's the latest love of her life. Nothing escapes Sarah-Jayne, and Deborah fears what she'll make of her mum. It's good to be different, her mum often says; but not, Deborah knows, too different. So, Deborah changes tactics, keeping her friends close and her enemy closer, even stepping up for some of Sarah-Jayne's levitation sessions. But when she encounters Sarah-Jayne's big sister's fiance, Max, she senses that all isn't quite as it seems. 'A glorious writer... witty, well-observed and full of heart' Irish Independent 'A bittersweet, nostalgia-tinged adventure... with a steadily growing voltage' Daily Mail [author pic thumbnail if there's room]
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Autorenporträt
Launched in 1990 with her debut novel, Darker Days Than Usual, Suzannah Dunn wrote a further five critically acclaimed contemporary novels, and a short story collection, published by Flamingo, before writing her first historical novel, The Queen of Subtleties, which was published in 2004. She went on to write The Sixth Wife, The Queen's Sorrow, The Confession of Katherine Howard (a Richard & Judy pick in 2011), The May Bride, The Lady of Misrule and The Testimony of Alys Twist.