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"A dizzying yet powerful read." --Claire-Louise Bennett, author, Pond A sharp and witty debut novel that is at once a tender portrait of youth and an exploration of the emotional costs of social mobility, the possibilities of leaving and returning, the meanings of work and the ways a woman learns to love women 'Can I get a refund?' I asked the bus driver.
'You taking the piss, love?' It's January 2015, and Grace is supposed to have what she wants. She's swapped West Yorkshire for north London, her accent carefully edited and with a Cambridge degree under her belt. Her friends drink beer out of artful tins. She makes flat whites for people with berets. She's found a psychoanalyst. But this fantasy of metropolitan cool is turning out to be more costly than she thought, and Grace is running out of credit. Painfully adrift from her mother and twin sister and trying desperately both to forget her roots and disown her ambition, she's lost and confused in the face of complicated crises of identity, class, sex and geography. She finds herself fleeing up and down a country on the verge of an intractable schism, and begins to reckon with her own divisions. Can she find a life amid these contradictions? Can she remember how to love?
Author: Anna Glendenning
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.30w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781529113600
ISBN10: 1529113601
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | City Life
- Fiction | Urban & Street Lit
'You taking the piss, love?' It's January 2015, and Grace is supposed to have what she wants. She's swapped West Yorkshire for north London, her accent carefully edited and with a Cambridge degree under her belt. Her friends drink beer out of artful tins. She makes flat whites for people with berets. She's found a psychoanalyst. But this fantasy of metropolitan cool is turning out to be more costly than she thought, and Grace is running out of credit. Painfully adrift from her mother and twin sister and trying desperately both to forget her roots and disown her ambition, she's lost and confused in the face of complicated crises of identity, class, sex and geography. She finds herself fleeing up and down a country on the verge of an intractable schism, and begins to reckon with her own divisions. Can she find a life amid these contradictions? Can she remember how to love?
Author: Anna Glendenning
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.30w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781529113600
ISBN10: 1529113601
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | City Life
- Fiction | Urban & Street Lit
About the Author
Anna Glendenning is a writer from Leeds. She was formerly an editor at And Other Stories, where books under her wing made the 2018 Man Booker International and Goldsmiths Prize shortlists. In 2017 she was shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize. She was born in 1991, is based in London, and works in the engagement team at Kew Gardens.