The debut novel from the brilliant and award-winning poet Helen Mort
Alexa is a police community support officer whose world feels unstable.
Caron, Alexa's girlfriend, is pushing her away and pushing herself even harder. A climber, she fixates on a brutal route. Leigh, who works at a local gear shop, watches Caron climb and feels complicit.
Meanwhile, an ex-police officer compulsively revisits the April day in 1989 that changed his life forever. Trapped in his memories of the disaster, he tracks the Hillsborough inquests, questioning everything.
As the young women negotiate Sheffield's violent inheritance, the rock faces of Stanage and their relationships with each other, Mort stunningly grounds these journeys of trust and trauma, fear and falling, in the texture of the urban and natural terrain underfoot.
'A beautifully accomplished debut...a deeply felt work of loss, time and healing' Guardian
'Helen Mort is unmistakably one of the most brilliant poets of her generation; Black Car Burning shows her to be a remarkable novelist' Robert Macfarlane
| ISBN: | 9781784706630 |
| Publication date: | 16th July 2020 |
| Author: | Helen Mort |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 322 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Narrative theme: Sense of place Narrative theme: Social issues |
The debut novel from the brilliant and award-winning poet Helen Mort
Alexa is a police community support officer whose world feels unstable.
Caron, Alexa's girlfriend, is pushing her away and pushing herself even harder. A climber, she fixates on a brutal route. Leigh, who works at a local gear shop, watches Caron climb and feels complicit.
Meanwhile, an ex-police officer compulsively revisits the April day in 1989 that changed his life forever. Trapped in his memories of the disaster, he tracks the Hillsborough inquests, questioning everything.
As the young women negotiate Sheffield's violent inheritance, the rock faces of Stanage and their relationships with each other, Mort stunningly grounds these journeys of trust and trauma, fear and falling, in the texture of the urban and natural terrain underfoot.
'A beautifully accomplished debut...a deeply felt work of loss, time and healing' Guardian
'Helen Mort is unmistakably one of the most brilliant poets of her generation; Black Car Burning shows her to be a remarkable novelist' Robert Macfarlane
Black Car Burning features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Social issues
Black Car Burning is available in Paperback, Hardback
Black Car Burning was written by Helen Mort and published by Vintage an imprint of Random House
Black Car Burning has 322 pages
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