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The Gosling Girl (Hardcover)
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The Gosling Girl (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R333
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'[The Gosling Girl] interrogates the context of a child's crime and
simplistic notions of evil by society and the media. It fosters
understanding & empathy and draws us deep inside the
protagonist's psychology' Bernardine Evaristo Monster? Murderer?
Child? Victim? Michelle Cameron's name is associated with the most
abhorrent of crimes. A child who lured a younger child away from
her parents and to her death, she is known as the black girl who
murdered a little white girl; evil incarnate according to the
media. As the book opens, she has done her time, and has been
released as a young woman with a new identity to start her life
again. When another shocking death occurs, Michelle is the first in
the frame. Brought into the police station to answer questions
around a suspicious death, it is only a matter of time until the
press find out who she is now and where she lives and set about
destroying her all over again. Natalie Tyler is the officer brought
in to investigate the murder. A black detective constable, she has
been ostracised from her family and often feels she is in the wrong
job. But when she meets Michelle, she feels a complicated need to
protect her, whatever she might have done. The Gosling Girl is a
moving, powerful account of systemic, institutional and
internalised racism, and of how the marginalised fight back. It
delves into the psychological after-effects of a crime committed in
childhood, exploring intersections between race and class as
Michelle's story is co-opted and controlled by those around her.
Jacqueline writes with a cool restraint and The Gosling Girl is a
raw and powerful novel that will stay with the reader long after
they have turned the last page. Praise For Jacqueline Roy and The
Fat Lady Sings: 'This is a novel of daring - enjoyable, surprising
and original' Bernardine Evaristo 'A strong and humane work of
fiction' Jackie Kay 'A striking commentary' Scotsman 'A strong,
humorous and moving piece of fiction . . . such is the life
injected into the characters that by the end of the novel there
remains that reluctance to part with people you have come to love'
calabash 'Unflinchingly told . . . harrowing but also shockingly
funny' Big Issue 'A joy' Pride
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