Precocious

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A compelling, clever and controversial debut which will appeal to fans of THE GIRL ON A TRAIN, APPLE TREE YARD, GONE GIRL and NOTES ON A SCANDAL. 'Can there be a more unreliable narrator than a teenage girl' Fiona Palmer is (un)happily married when a chance meeting with her former teacher plunges her headlong into an affair. Intercut with the realities of their adult relationship, Fiona remembers first meeting the enigmatic Henry Morgan as a precocious and lonely fourteen-year-old. Her schoolgirl crush developed into an intense relationship, but it was always one which she controlled. Or did she A controversial, compelling debut novel from an award-winning writer which will appeal to fans of The Girl on a Train.

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What a fabulous debut!... a writer of great talent, she tackles a difficult and complex subject with such sensitivity and skill -- Louise Douglas
Unsettling and compelling -- Fanny Blake * Woman And Home *
a memorable, powerful and fascinating read. Joanna Barnard has skilfully, subtly and with great compassion written a gripping and provocative tale that deserves to be read -- Liz Robinson * LoveReading *
Unsettling and compelling -- Fannie Blake * Woman and Home *

Author Bio

Joanna Barnard works as a counsellor. In 2014, she won the inaugural Bath Novel Award. A Northerner currently exiled in the South of England, Joanna misses flat vowels, friendly bus drivers and chips and gravy. She is the author of Precocious and Hush Little Baby.