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Only Here, Only Now: The funny, moving and original debut from award-winning author Tom Newlands
Tom Newlands
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'This isn't just a great first novel; it's a great novel. And Cora, the mad, chaotic, wise, funny narrator, is one of the great characters' RODDY DOYLE'It's not every day you read a modern classic. But this feels destined to become one. A thunderous achievement' NATHAN FILER
Fife, in the blazing hot summer of 1994. Cora Mowat is stuck on a seaside council estate with a thousand dreams and a restless brain that won't behave. She's dying to escape but unsure of what the future holds - if it holds anything at all for a girl like her.
When her Mam's new boyfriend moves in, tensions rise in their tiny house. Gunner means well, but he's dodgy - a shaven-headed shoplifter with more than a few secrets stashed under the bed. As their attempts to forge a makeshift family unravel, Cora rails against her small-town existence in search of love, acceptance and a path to something good. But sometimes you can't move forward until you find your way back . . .
In this extraordinary debut, drawn from life but written with riotous imagination, Tom Newlands explores what it means to come of age in a forgotten corner of Scotland and dream of a life that feels out of reach. Vibrant, lyrical and fiercely funny, Only Here, Only Now is a story about poverty, identity and family that shines with hope and resilience.
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Praise for Only Here, Only Now: The funny, moving and original debut from award-winning author Tom Newlands
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Absolutely loved this. Funny and heartbreaking in equal measureRich and vivid . . . This sprawling coming-of-age tale explores poverty, belonging, grief and rage, and Newlands writes with such energy that his book, though bleak, is hard to put down . . . There's humour as well as love, hope and resilience in this accomplished novel - OBSERVERThink Shuggie Bain. Think Trainspotting. Think The Cutting Room. You can add Tom Newlands to that list. Only Here, Only Now is the Scottish writer's debut novel and it's a brammer . . . The Scottish book of the summer - HERALDA fantastic debut novel . . . it's a corker
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