Precocious

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‘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? A controversial, compelling debut novel from an award-winning writer which will appeal to fans of The Girl on a Train.

Additional information

Weight 0.229 kg
Dimensions 2.1 × 12.6 × 19.8 cm
Format

Paperback
language1
Pages

336
Publisher

Year Published

2016-3-10
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

1785030302
About The Author

Joanna Barnard works as a counsellor. 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.She is the author of Precocious and Hush Little Baby.
Review Quote

What a fabulous debut!… a writer of great talent, she tackles a difficult and complex subject with such sensitivity and skill
Other text

Unsettling and compelling…

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