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Uncomfortable, sorrowful, challenging - yes Precocious is all of these, however it is also a memorable, powerful and fascinating read. Fiona reconnects with Henry, one of her teachers from Secondary School and starts to mentally revisit events from her younger years. Fiona herself tells the story, she is abrasive, different and insightful, it takes a little while to get used to how she darts around in her mind and in time. Don't be in too much of a rush to make your mind up about Fiona, her journey has to be experienced and there is understanding to be discovered. Joanna Barnard has skilfully, subtly and with great compassion written a gripping and provocative tale that deserves to be read. ~ Liz Robinson
One of our Books of the Year 2015.
'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.
Closing date: 01/04/2021
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ISBN: 9781785030307
Publication date: 10/03/2016
Publisher: Ebury Press an imprint of Ebury Publishing
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781785031229
Publication date: 02/07/2015
Publisher: Ebury Press an imprint of Ebury Publishing
Format: Hardback
| ISBN: | 9781785030307 |
| Publication date: | 10th March 2016 |
| Author: | Joanna Barnard |
| Publisher: | Ebury Press an imprint of Ebury Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
| Genres: | Reader Reviewed Books, eBook Favourites, Family Drama, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Relationship Stories, |
| Collections: | 50+ Beautifully Written Books, |
| Categories: | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), |
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. Author photo © Clare Golding
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