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Informationen zum Autor Jenni Fagan was born in Scotland. Jenni was selected as one of Granta 's Best Young British Novelists after the publication of her debut novel, The Panopticon , which was shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and the James Tait Black Prize. The Sunlight Pilgrims , her second novel, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Encore Award and the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award and saw her win Scottish Author of the Year at the Herald Culture Awards. Luckenbooth was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2021. Jenni Fagan is a Doctor of Philosophy, she lives in Edinburgh with her son. Klappentext Paperback edition of the novel about a young girl in a care home, from the Scottish poet. With appeal to fans of Eleanor Catton's "The Rehearsal" and Simon Lelic's "Rupture". 'An utterly magnificent achievement.' Irvine Welsh Zusammenfassung Fifteen-year old Anais Hendricks is smart, funny and fierce, but she is also a child who has been let down, or worse, by just about every adult she has ever met. Sitting in the back of a police car, she finds herself headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders where the social workers are as suspicious as its residents.
