Review
'Vivid, visceral, courageous writing that dares to give a voice to the excluded.' --Maggie Gee, author
Product Description
The haunting and beautifully crafted tale of a girl's feral childhood in 1960s Lancashire, and her friend Jack's search for the missing homeless adult she becomes. Piecing together diaries, medical notes and media reports, Jack's quest ultimately leads him to re-examine his own history and abondoned identity. Powerful and thought-provoking, this debut novel uses unique language and devices to challenge perceptions of homelessness, identity and exclusion in modern society.
About the Author
Carol Fenlon has lived in Skelmersdale for over thirty years and began writing in earnest in 1993 when a motorbike accident ended her career as a mental health nurse. Since then her writing has been published in mainstream magazines and received critical acclaim in national writing competitions including the Exeter Poetry Prize, the Asham Award and now the Impress Prize for New Writers. She is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University, focusing her research on images of feral children in fiction.
