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A Kind of Intimacy
Jenn Ashworth
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Description for A Kind of Intimacy
Paperback. The prize-winning debut by Jenn Ashworth, which led her to be picked as one of the 12 Best New British Novelists by BBC TV's The Culture Show in 2011, a blackly funny and compelling tale of obsession, misplaced passion and one seriously mixed-up young woman - the kind of neighbour you would not wish on your worst enemy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 209 x 18. Weight in Grams: 216.
Annie is obese, lonely and hopeful. Armed with self-help books, her cat and a collection of cow-shaped milk jugs, she moves into her new home and sets about getting to know the neighbours, especially the man next door. She ignores her neighbour's inconvenient girlfriend, but it's not quite as easy for Annie to dismiss her own past. As Annie's murky history of violence, secrets and sexual mishaps catches up with her, she cannot see that she has done anything wrong. She's just doing what any good neighbour would do, after all...
Annie is obese, lonely and hopeful. Armed with self-help books, her cat and a collection of cow-shaped milk jugs, she moves into her new home and sets about getting to know the neighbours, especially the man next door. She ignores her neighbour's inconvenient girlfriend, but it's not quite as easy for Annie to dismiss her own past. As Annie's murky history of violence, secrets and sexual mishaps catches up with her, she cannot see that she has done anything wrong. She's just doing what any good neighbour would do, after all...
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444762976
SKU
V9781444762976
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About Jenn Ashworth
Jenn Ashworth was born in 1982 in Preston. She studied English at Cambridge and since then has gained an MA from Manchester University, trained as a librarian and run a prison library in Lancashire. She now lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Lancaster. Her first novel, A Kind of Intimacy, was published in 2009 and won a Betty ... Read more
Reviews for A Kind of Intimacy
extremely intense and powerfully intriguing
Waterstone's
evokes a damaged mind with the empathy and confidence of Ruth Rendell
The Times
a hugely readable debut novel...about the inability to know others and ourselves
Independent
who wouldn't kill for a comic gift like Jenn Ashworth's?
Guardian An intense and intriguing novel that never quite ... Read more
Waterstone's
evokes a damaged mind with the empathy and confidence of Ruth Rendell
The Times
a hugely readable debut novel...about the inability to know others and ourselves
Independent
who wouldn't kill for a comic gift like Jenn Ashworth's?
Guardian An intense and intriguing novel that never quite ... Read more