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
