***Shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2025*** A gut-punch novel of girlhood in early
noughties Yorkshire from a blazing new voice 'It feels essential. You will read nothing else
like it this year' GUARDIAN 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 Flesh takes 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. 'A novel brimming with rough
poetry heart and mischief' FERDIA LENNON 'Blistering brilliant savage and smart' EIMEAR
McBRIDE 'Unforgettable...a wondrous luminous novel' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH 'Brilliant and
original on every level... she is a writer like nobody else' ELIZABETH McCRACKEN
