Backpack: A dark suspense thriller with a shocking twist
By (Author) Emily Barr
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Review
12th April 2001
1st February 2001
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Winner of WH Smith Book Awards: New Talent 2002
Paperback
384
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 26mm
320g
Tansy plans to go travelling with her boyfriend after her alcoholic mother dies. At the last minute he bows out and she finds herself drunk and coked-up - as ever - on a plane ti Vietnam and wondering why. Will she return to London skinny, tanned and wise, as planned
Emily Barr has written columns and travel pieces for the Observer and the Guardian for several years, and her previous novels have all been critically acclaimed. She lives in Cornwall with her husband and three children.