Real Gone Kid: 80s Coming of Age Story

✍ Scribed by Kate Fridriks

• Book ID: 111254291
• Publisher: Steel Thistle Press Ltd
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 185 KB
• Series: Raven Craig Series #1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781915847027
• ASIN: B0BPQ28VGW

✦ Synopsis

Everyone deserves to feel safe.

It's 1984. Superpowers for girls and women exist only on TV and in comics.

Aileen Murphy struggles to make sense of her life in a working-class Scottish steel town. She dreams of escaping the sectarian bullying she has kept secret; then, the gorgeous Steve Henderson enters her world.

When her vulnerable younger sister becomes the next target of the bullies, Aileen knows she must make a stand. Will Steve's proposition to secretly teach Aileen her own 'superpower' save her and her sister? And can Aileen find the courage to fight for her dreams – to feel safe – and to be accepted for who she is?

Real Gone Kid is the first novel in the adult, coming-of-age, Raven Craig series, set in 1980s industrial Scotland.

Fans of working-class, coming-of-age fiction and memoirs – such as Billy Elliot by Melvin Burgess; Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart; Damian Barr's Maggie & Me; Deborah Orr's Motherwell; and The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong – will also enjoy this gritty, feel-good novel.