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A Kind of Intimacy
Jenn Ashworth
A Kind of Intimacy traces the dark possibilities of best intention going awry and gives an unsettling glimpse into a clumsy young woman who has too much in common with the rest of us to be written off as a monster.
Annie moves into her new home bringing little else but her cat and a collection of cow-shaped milk jugs. She's hoping for a clean slate, but there is something familiar about her next door neighbour - she's convinced she's seen him somewhere before. Annie is morbidly obese, lonely and hopeful. She narrates her own increasingly bizarre attempts to ingratiate herself with her new neightbours, to learn from past mistakes and achieve a 'certain kind of intimacy' with the boy next door. Undeterred by her target's hostile girlfriend, she searches for guidance, obsessively studying self-help literature and romance novels. Though Annie struggles to repress a murky history of violence, secrets and sexual mishaps her past is never too far behind her, finally shattering her denial in a compelling and bloody climax.
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The Two Mrs Grenvilles
Dominick Dunne
A story of love, murder, social climbing and class privilege set in 1940s New York, a city peopled not only by fictional characters but also by the real celebrities of that time.
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Best Love, Rosie
Nuala O Faolain
‘How does any person find new pleasures when the old ones have lost their savour?’
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