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Shawnie

those who don't mind shocking scenes

A new novelist tackles a taboo subject head on and with humanity—his aim to show the truth of marginalized modern-day lives  This hard-hitting fiction, told with a distinctive Bristolian voice, tells the story of the Brewer family—mom Lisa, brother Jason, and daughter Shawnie—plus Lisa's so-called lover, Steve. Over the course of one intense summer, they each tell their own off-kilter version of the events in their lives. Shawnie, just 13, dreams of a normal life: a lock on the bathroom door, clean clothes for school, and no wild parties with her mom as the centerfold. A "diamond of a girl," she tries to keep the family in order—but prostitution, drink, and violence are eating away at them all, leading towards a horror that's almost too much to bear. In dialect voices that create a claustrophobic domestic world, the four residents of Lurgan Walk tell a visceral, darkly humorous tale. This is an unsettling yet compassionate novel about family life gone very wrong—a hell just down the road.

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  • ISBN: 9780954791384 / 0
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