Weak Teeth - Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month

Weak Teeth is a wonderfully astute portrait of a messed-up family coping with mental illness, grief, difficult relationships and toothache, told with verve and originality. A captivating debut from Edinburgh-based writer Lynsey May, for fans of Sally Rooney, Meg Mason and Marian Keyes.

About the author

Lynsey May lives, loves and writes in Edinburgh. She won first place in the Fresh Ink novel contest in 2020, a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2013, a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2015 and a spot as Cove Park’s Emerging Scottish Writer in 2016. Her short fiction has been published in various journals and anthologies, including The Stinging Fly, Gutter, New Writing Scotland and Banshee. Weak Teeth is her first novel.

Summary

Weak Teeth is a wonderfully astute portrait of a messed-up family coping with mental illness, grief, difficult relationships and toothache, told with verve and originality. A captivating debut from Edinburgh-based writer Lynsey May, for fans of Sally Rooney, Meg Mason and Marian Keyes.

Product details

• Authors: Lynsey May, May Lynsey
• Publisher: BIRLINN LIMITED
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.05.2024
• EAN: 9781846976629
• ISBN: 978-1-84697-662-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Sagas, FICTION / Sagas, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy, FICTION / Psychological, Humorous fiction, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Category fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family saga / generational saga fiction, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction