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About Mothernight
"I was beginning to realise that time didn't move forwards here. It just spun round and round, circling an old date, endlessly." > > So says seventeen-year-old Olivia who spends the summer at the home of her boarding school friend, the brilliant, distant, lonely Leila. Their intense relationship circles Leila's painful past: a dreadful accident when she was five, and then the sudden death of her infant brother four years later. Olivia meets Leila's childhood friend Rosie, a disturbing, manipulative influence, and Katherine, Leila's step-mother: bitter, damaged and unforgiving. Now on the verge of adulthood, Leila decides to confront her past and her family, but the atmosphere of blame and recrimination hangs as heavy as the summer heat and will prove more powerful than she could have ever imagined.
About Sarah Stovell
Sarah was born in October 1977. She grew up in Kent and Oxfordshire, and went to Sussex University, where she studied English
Literature.
She had her first short story published by WH Smith when she was ten, and wrote her first novel at the age of twelve. Later,
in 1999, she was a finalist in the Vogue Talent Contest for Young Writers.
Sarah decided to commit to fiction writing after a course with the Arvon Foundation in 2003, which she followed with an MA
in Creative Writing at Lancaster University. Mothernight became part of her MA project, although it was not finished for
another year.
Sarah now lives and writes in Wallingford, Oxfordshire. She works as an antiquarian bookseller and part-time teacher of Creative
Writing.
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"I know it is early. And it isn't even out yet. But hell. I am already a fan...beautifully written...I loved it." Mockduck Blog
Book information
Price: £7.99
ISBN13: 9781905005802
Publication Date: 03/03/2008
Availability: Available Now
Format: B Format Paperback
Category: General Fiction
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