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A Kind of Intimacy
Jenn Ashworth
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Annie is morbidly obese, lonely and hopeful. She narrates her own increasingly bizarre attempts to ingratiate herself with her new neighbours, learn from past mistakes and achieve a "certain kind of intimacy" with the boy next door. Though Annie struggles to repress a murky history of violence, secrets and sexual mishaps her past is never too far behind her, finally shattering her denial in a compelling and bloody climax. A quirky and darkly comic debut.
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An intense and intriguing novel that never quite lets the reader get comfortable. It understands about the fuzzy boundary between the normal and the strange, and weaves them together in a gripping, ever-darkening narrative - Jenny Diskiwho wouldn't kill for a comic gift like Jenn Ashworth's? - Guardiana hugely readable debut novel...about the inability to know others and ourselves - Independentevokes a damaged mind with the empathy and confidence of Ruth Rendell - The Timesextremely intense and powerfully intriguing - Waterstone'sAn intense and intriguing novel that never quite lets the reader get comfortable. It understands about the fuzzy boundary between the normal and the strange, and weaves them together in a gripping, ever-darkening narrative - Jenny Diskiwho wouldn't kill for a comic gift like Jenn Ashworth's? - Guardiana hugely readable debut novel...about the inability to know others and ourselves - Independent
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