Thirty-nine-year-old Megan Fallon is in a pickle. Not only is she suffering from empty-nest syndrome, but sheβs lost the job she loved, and her fiancΓ©βs run off with her hairdresser. A complete life change is whatβs called for, so when the opportunity to make a new start presents itself followin
Scabby Queen
β Scribed by Kirstin Innes
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers; 4th Estate
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 256 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- London
- ISBN
- 0008342318
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β¦ Synopsis
'Kirstin Innes is aiming high, writing for readers in the early days of a better nation' A.L. Kennedy, author of Serious Sweet Three days before her fifty-first birthday, Clio Campbell β one-hit-wonder, political activist, life-long-love and one-night-stand β kills herself in her friend Ruth's spare bedroom. And, as practical as she is, Ruth doesn't know what to do. Or how to feel. Because knowing and loving Clio Campbell was never straightforward. To Neil, she was his great unrequited love. He'd known it since their days on picket lines as teenagers. Now she's a sentence in his email inbox:Β Remember me well. The media had loved her as a sexy young starlet, but laughed her off as a ranting spinster as she aged. But with news of her suicide, Clio Campbell is transformed into a posthumous heroine for politically chaotic times. Stretching over five decades, taking in the miners' strikes to Brexit and beyond; hopping between a tiny Scottish island, a Brixton anarchist squat, the...
β¦ Subjects
Fiction
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