The Pools - Couverture souple

Roberts, Bethan

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Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852424990 ISBN 13 : 9781852424992

Editeur : Serpent's Tail, 2007

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Middle England, mid-1980s. The kind of place where nothing ever happens. Except something has happened. A fifteen year old boy called Robert has been killed, down by the pools. And half a dozen lives will come unravelled. There's Kathryn and Howard, Rob's parents. Kath has been making the best of her second marriage after the love of her life died young. Howard has been clinging onto a family life he hardly expected to have. There's Joanna, the teen queen of nowheresville. She's been looking for a way out, escape from her parents' broken marriage. She thought Rob might take her away from all this, but lately she's started to think Rob might have other plans. And then there's Shane, with the big hands and the backward brain and the fixation on Joanna. Bethan Roberts' strikingly assured debut novel expertly reveals the tensions and terrors that underpin apparently ordinary lives, and can lead them to spiral suddenly out of control.

Revue de presse :

A complex anatomy of a murder, The Pools brilliantly evokes the sickening recognition of a wasteful death. Bethan Roberts is a fearless writer whose first novel raises questions about fate and responsibility that remain with the reader long after the last page has been turned. A compelling debut. --Louise Welsh

An unsettling and disturbing tale of awakening sexuality and predatory parents. --Patricia Duncker

A tense thriller that reminded me of Julie Myerson's Something Might Happen. --Eve Magazine

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