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Black car burning

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The debut novel from the brilliant and award-winning poet Helen MortAlexa is a police community support officer whose world feels unstable. Caron, Alexa’s girlfriend, is pushing her away and pushing herself even harder.

A climber, she fixates on a brutal route. Leigh, who works at a local gear shop, watches Caron climb and feels complicit. Meanwhile, an ex-police officer compulsively revisits the April day in 1989 that changed his life forever.

Trapped in his memories of the disaster, he tracks the Hillsborough inquests, questioning everything. As the young women negotiate Sheffield’s violent inheritance, the rock faces of Stanage and their relationships with each other, Mort stunningly grounds these journeys of trust and trauma, fear and falling, in the texture of the urban and natural terrain underfoot. 'A beautifully accomplished debut...a deeply felt work of loss, time and healing' Guardian‘Helen Mort is unmistakably one of the most brilliant poets of her generation; Black Car Burning shows her to be a remarkable novelist’ Robert Macfarlane

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Vintage
1784706639 / 9781784706630
Paperback / softback
823.92
16/07/2020
United Kingdom
English
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322 pages
20 cm
Reprint. Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2019.