Almost Grace

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This week away has been a marker in our minds for years - our rite of passage from childhood into adulthood - has finally arrived. Grace and her two oldest friends are holidaying in a small fishing village on the South African coast when she meets Spook. Charismatic, self-assured and intoxicatingly out of step with the real world, Spook is unlike anyone else Grace has ever met. Haunted by her personal demons, Grace has been falling deeper into a dark place. Could this first love turn her life around Then Spook disappears, leaving Grace behind with a bag full of money, a gun and increasingly violent threats from two local men. She is forced to decide exactly who to trustherself, or her first love

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Rosie Rowell was born and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. After completing a BA degree in English and Economics at the University of Cape Town, Rosie arrived in the UK on a short working holiday and never quite managed to leave. She now lives in in the wilds of West Sussex with her husband and three children, but returns to South Africa as often as the bank balance will allow. She has recently completed a MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths University of London. Her first novel, Leopold Blue, was published by Hot Key Books in 2014.