Brutes: 'An astonishing debut' SUNDAY TIMES

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In Falls Landing, Florida-a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, andscorched bougainvillea flowers-something sinister lurks in the deep. A gangof thirteen-year-old girls obsessively orbit around the local preacher's daughter,Sammy. She is mesmerizing, older, and in love with Eddie. But suddenly,Sammy goes missing. Where is she Watching from a distance, they edgeever closer to discovering a dark secret about their fame-hungry town and thecruel cost of a ticket out. What they uncover will continue to haunt them forthe rest of their lives.

Through a darkly beautiful and brutally compelling lens, Dizz Tate capturesthe violence, horrors, and manic joys of girlhood. Brutes is a novel about theseemingly unbreakable bonds in the 'we' of young friendship, and the momentit is broken forever.

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Dizz Tate was born in 1993 in London and grew up in Orlando,Florida. Her short stories have appeared in TheStinging Fly, Dazed, Five Dials and No Tokens Journal,amongst others. She won the Bristol Short Story Prize in2018. For her story 'Harpies', she won Best Original Fictionin the Stack magazine awards in 2019, and in 2020, she waslonglisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award.