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Zusatztext Fevered and claustrophobic Informationen zum Autor Hazel grew up in Stirlingshire and North Yorkshire before studying English at Oxford. She then moved to London where she spent her days working as a cultural consultant, and her nights dancing in a pop band at glam rock clubs. Hazel is a graduate of both the Oxford University MSt in Creative Writing and the Curtis Brown Creative Novel-Writing course. She now works in Oxford, where she lives with her partner. Heatstroke is her first novel. Klappentext The intoxicating debut novel that everyone is talking about this summer.'Barkworth is excruciatingly good... An impressive first book' OBSERVERA COSMOPOLITAN BEST BOOKS OF SUMMER 2020 pickHEAT magazine's READ OF THE WEEK - 'the evocative one''I wanted to stay within its pages forever' CLARE MACKINTOSH---This summer burns with secrets...It is too hot to sleep. To work. To be questioned time and again by the police.At the beginning of a stifling, sultry summer, everything shifts irrevocably when Lily doesn't come home one afternoon.Rachel is Lily's teacher. Her daughter Mia is Lily's best friend. The girls are fifteen - almost women, still children.As Rachel becomes increasingly fixated on Lily's absence, she finds herself breaking fragile trusts and confronting impossible choices she never thought she'd face.It wasn't supposed to happen like this.Intoxicating and compulsive, Heatstroke is a darkly gripping, thought-provoking novel of crossed boundaries, power and betrayal, that plays with expectations at every turn.FOR FANS OF ZOE HELLER, EMMA CLINE, EXPECTATION AND MY DARK VANESSA.---'Stylish and sensual' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE'A summer sizzler... with twists, turns and revelations in all the right places' EVENING STANDARD'What to read next IF YOU LOVED THREE WOMEN by Lisa Taddeo' WHISTLES newsletter'A thrilling look at mothers and daughters, adolescence, sex, suburbia and secrets' NELL FRIZZELL'Sexy, sensual, difficult, provocative...definitely one of the best reads of the summer' LAURA JANE WILLIAMS'Pulls you into its sweaty interior and keeps you gripped' RENEE KNIGHT'I couldn't tear myself away' ERIN KELLY'I am addicted!... A gripping, dark and twisty read with beautiful, poetic writing' EMMA GANNON'Compulsive, sticky and full of gorgeous writing' KIRSTIN INNES'A scorching tale of obsession, betrayal and the wounds that mothers and daughters inflict on each other' TAMMY COHEN Vorwort The intoxicating book club pick that everyone is talking about this summer. Zusammenfassung 'A thrilling look at mothers and daughters, adolescence, sex, suburbia and secrets' NELL FRIZZELL 'Unsettling, challenging and utterly immersive' CLARE MACKINTOSH 'A sultry, stifling debut exploring power, consent and womanhood' COSMOPOLITAN --- In the middle of a stifling suburban heatwave, fifteen-year-old Lily doesn't come home one afternoon. Rachel is Lily's teacher. Her daughter Mia is Lily's best friend. When they learn that Lily meant to disappear, taking nothing but lipsticks and some lacy underwear from her mother's drawer, Rachel is horrified - like any other parent. But as Rachel becomes obsessed with Lily's secret life, and who she might be with, she grows increasingly distrustful of Mia. Rachel knows that her daughter is hiding something... because she is hiding something too. Unfolding over a stifling hot summer, Heatstroke draws us into the secrets, lies and betrayals that simmer beneath a fracturing relationship between mother and daughter, leaving them both changed forever. --- 'Barkworth is excruciatingly good' OBSERVER 'I am addicted... dark and twisty with beautiful, poetic writing' EMMA GANNON 'Gripping and intensely atmospheric... you won't want to put this down' HEAT magazine's READ OF TH...
