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Item Details
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THE KILLING JAR
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| By: |
Nicola Monaghan |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£11.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
070117983X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780701179830 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
30 March, 2006 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
Five-year-old Kerrie-Ann Hill has an unusual neighbour. Mrs Ivanovich collects butterflies, and Kerrie-Ann is entranced by them. Mrs Ivanovich shows her how to catch them, how to take care of them, and even, with a jar and some strange-smelling powder, how to kill them. This is Kerrie-Ann's story. |
| Synopsis: |
Five-year-old Kerrie-Ann Hill has an unusual neighbour. Mrs Ivanovich collects butterflies - she shows Kerrie-Ann how to catch them, how to take care of them, and even, with a jar and some strange-smelling liquid, how to kill them. Kerrie-Ann loves looking at these beautiful, delicate creatures in their cases, and imagining them flying free...This is Kerrie-Ann's story. She doesn't know who her father is, and her mother is a junkie. By the age of 10, she's sent out to sell drugs in school playgrounds. By the age of 12, she's been beaten up by a customer, hidden stolen guns in the dump behind the estate, done time in a girl's home, and already has a taste for whizz. And then there's Mark...her only true friend and the one person she can really trust. Their friendship turns into a powerful love and together they are invincible, riding the euphoric highs of the 80s rave scene. But in their world of dealing and violence, addictions become all-consuming and it's easy to lose control. On this drug-riddled estate with an atmosphere as leathal as the killing jar of the title, it seems that Kerrie-Ann doesn't stand a chance.Unless she can make use of what Mrs Ivanovich taught her all those years ago. In this truly outstanding first novel, Nicola Monaghan has created a scary, unforgettable and original voice in a character who tells her story straight, with courage and control and without self-pity. She perfectly recreates the bleakness, the surreal violence of this world, but makes it human, and shows that love and hope can exist in the most poisoned places. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Chatto & Windus |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2007
Winner of Betty Trask Award 2006 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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