Levitation for BeginnersAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 4 April 2024
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A deliciously unsettling read Clare Chambers, bestselling author of Small Pleasures
A sharp eye and keen wit are brought to bear on the secrets and lies of a small rural community - secrets and lies that may prove deadly.
Its 1972 and ten-year-old Deborah is living a ten-year-old life: butterscotch angel delight and Raleigh chopper bikes, and Clunk Click, and Crackajack and Jackanory, Layla and the Bee Gees, flares and ponchos.
But new girl Sarah-Jayne breezes into ten-year-old Deborahs school, pretty as a picture and full of gossip and speculation, as well as unlikely but thrilling stories about levitation. The other girls are dazzled but Deborah is wary and keeps her distance. That same week, eighteen-year-old brickie Sonny turns up on her doorstep with a stray tortoise and begins an unlikely friendship with her young widowed mum. Thats bad enough, Deborah thinks, but then Sonny starts work on a site opposite the school and Sarah-Jayne decides hes the latest love of her life. Nothing escapes Sarah-Jayne, and Deborah fears what shell make of her mum. Its good to be different, her mum often says; but not, Deborah knows, too different.
So, Deborah changes tactics, keeping her friends close and her enemy closer, even stepping up for some of Sarah-Jaynes levitation sessions. Then shes invited to Sarah-Jaynes lovely house, where she meets her charming family and encounters Sarah-Jaynes big sisters fiance, Max, which is when she senses that all isnt quite as it seems.
Readers say:
Suzannah Dunn is a master at dissecting the relationships that are closer than "just friends", those love affairs we have with our oldest friends, the attachments we formed before we were old enough to rationalise our preferences - the friends of our blood and bone. This book is a subtle, elegant and creepily powerful examination of what happens to one such friendship Five star reader review for Venus Flaring
I love this book and have read it and re-read it many times. It is so evocative of being a teenage girl in the late eighties and yet it somehow manages to be timeless. It perfectly captures the sense of self-importance that we all have as a teenager Five star reader review for Blood Sugar
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