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Precocious

Joanna Barnard

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English
Ebury Press
30 May 2016
A compelling, clever and controversial debut which will appeal to fans of THE GIRL ON A TRAIN, APPLE TREE YARD, GONE GIRL and

NOTES ON A SCANDAL.

'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.
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Imprint:   Ebury Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 126mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   229g
ISBN:   9781785030307
ISBN 10:   1785030302
Pages:   336
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for Precocious

What a fabulous debut!... a writer of great talent, she tackles a difficult and complex subject with such sensitivity and skill -- Louise Douglas Unsettling and compelling... -- Fanny Blake Woman And Home a memorable, powerful and fascinating read. Joanna Barnard has skilfully, subtly and with great compassion written a gripping and provocative tale that deserves to be read -- Liz Robinson LoveReading Unsettling and compelling -- Fannie Blake Woman and Home


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