Black Car Burning (Paperback)

The debut novel from the brilliant and award-winning poet Helen Mort Alexa is a police community support officer whose world feels unstable. Caron, Alexa's girlfriend, is pushing her away and pushing herself even harder. A climber, she fixates on a brutal route. Leigh, who works at a local gear shop, watches Caron climb and feels complicit. Meanwhile, an ex-police officer compulsively revisits the April day in 1989 that changed his life forever. Trapped in his memories of the disaster, he tracks the Hillsborough inquests, questioning everything. As the young women negotiate Sheffield's violent inheritance, the rock faces of Stanage and their relationships with each other, Mort stunningly grounds these journeys of trust and trauma, fear and falling, in the texture of the urban and natural terrain underfoot. 'A beautifully accomplished debut...a deeply felt work of loss, time and healing' Guardian 'Helen Mort is unmistakably one of the most brilliant poets of her generation; Black Car Burning shows her to be a remarkable novelist' Robert Macfarlane

General

Imprint:	Vintage
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2020
Authors:	Helen Mort
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 129mm (L x W x H)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-1-78470-663-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-78470-663-9
Barcode:	9781784706630

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