Peach
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SELECTED BY THE INDEPENDENT AND THE OBSERVER AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
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'An immensely talented young writer ... Her fearlessness renews one's faith in the power of literature ’ - George Saunders, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize
‘Poetic’ - Independent
‘The language is scintillating, the emotional heft remarkable’ - Observer
‘Daring’ - Sunday Times
‘Ferocious, startling, all-consuming’ - Daisy Johnson, author of Fen
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Peach is a teenage girl like any other. She has college, and her friends, and her parents and the new baby, and her gorgeous boyfriend Green. She has her friend Sandy, and Sid the cat, and homework to do.
But something has happened – something unspeakable – and her world has become unfamiliar, fractured into strange textures and patterns. Reeling through her refracted universe, Peach knows that the people she loves are in danger, real danger. If she is not to be swallowed whole, Peach must summon all her courage and dig deep into something nameless and strange that lies within her.
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'Powerfully felt, sinister, vivid' - Literary Review
'This is a book to be devoured in a single sitting. Glass is an exciting new author to know' - Vogue
'An impressive achievement' - Big Issue
Emma was born in Wales in 1987 and is now based in London, where she writes and works as a children’s nurse. Her debut novel Peach was published by Bloomsbury in 2018, has been translated into seven languages and was long-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Her second novel Rest and Be Thankful will be published by Bloomsbury in 2020.
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