Colwill Brown We Pretty Pieces of Flesh review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de nieuwe Engelse roman. Op 20 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Chatto & Windus de debuutroman van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijfster Colwill Brown. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.
Colwill Brown We Pretty Pieces of Flesh review, recensie en informatie
- “Brilliant and original on every level… she is a writer like nobody else.” (Elizabeth McCracken)
- “A brilliant portrait of female friendship, nearly the equal in honesty and subtlety to Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels.” (Kirkus)
- “Colwill Brown’s We Pretty Pieces of Flesh is a kinetic and incantatory portrait of the rough-and-tumble world of girlhood. I fell headlong for the tough, vulnerable, and whip-smart characters at the center of this spectacularly original debut.” (Laura van den Berg, author of State of Paradise)
We Pretty Pieces of Flesh
- Auteur: Colwill Brown (Engeland)
- Soort boek: Engelse roman, debuutroman
- Uitgever: Chatto & Windus
- Verschijnt: 20 februari 2025
- Omvang: 336 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
- Prijs: £ 16,99 / £ 8,99 / £ 14,00
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst debuutroman van de Engelse schrijfster Colwill Brown
A gut-punch novel of girlhood in early noughties Yorkshire from a blazing new voice
Ask anyone non-Northern, they’ll only know Donny as punch line of a joke or place they changed trains once ont way to London.
But Doncaster’s also the home of Rach, Shaz and Kel, bezzies since childhood and Donny lasses through and through. They share everything, from blagging their way into nightclubs to trips to the Family Planning clinic when they are late. Never mind that Rach is skeptical of Shaz’s bolder plots; or that Shaz, who comes from a rougher end of town, feels left behind when the others begin charting a course to uni; or that Kel sometimes feels split in two trying to keep the peace — their friendship is as indestructible as they are. But as they grow up and away from one another, a long-festering secret threatens to rip the trio apart.
We Pretty Pieces of Fleshtakes you by the hand and leads you through Doncaster’s schoolyards, alleyways and nightclubs, laying bare the intimate treacheries of adolescence and the ways we betray ourselves when we don’t trust our friends. Like The Glorious Heresies and Shuggie Bain, it tracks hard-edged lives and makes them sing, turning one overlooked place into the very centre of the world.
Colwill Brown was born and raised in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. She holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where she received a James A. Michener Center Fellowship, and an MA in English Literature from Boston College. Her work has appeared in Granta, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere. For fifteen years, she’s lived with ME/CFS, a debilitating neurological disease triggered by a virus that, due to systemic medical neglect, currently has no treatment. A proud Donny lass, she claims to have played bass guitar in (nearly) every rock venue on South Yorkshire’s toilet circuit.