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    A Kind of Intimacy

    Jenn Ashworth

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    Annie is morbidly obese, lonely and hopeful. She narrates her own increasingly bizarre attempts to ingratiate herself with her new neighbours, learn from past mistakes and achieve a "certain kind of intimacy" with the boy next door. Though Annie struggles to repress a murky history of violence, secrets and sexual mishaps her past is never too far behind her, finally shattering her denial in a compelling and bloody climax. A quirky and darkly comic debut.

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    More books by Jenn Ashworth
    The Parallel Path
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    The Parallel Path
    Ghosted
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    Ghosted
    Hometown Tales: Lancashire
    Jenn Ashworth, Benjamin Webster
    Hometown Tales: Lancashire
    Fell
    Jenn Ashworth
    Fell
    The Friday Gospels
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    Cold Light
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    Cold Light

    Praise for A Kind of Intimacy

    • An intense and intriguing novel that never quite lets the reader get comfortable. It understands about the fuzzy boundary between the normal and the strange, and weaves them together in a gripping, ever-darkening narrative - Jenny Diski

    • who wouldn't kill for a comic gift like Jenn Ashworth's? - Guardian</i

    • a hugely readable debut novel...about the inability to know others and ourselves - Independent

    • evokes a damaged mind with the empathy and confidence of Ruth Rendell - The Times

    • extremely intense and powerfully intriguing - Waterstone's

    • An intense and intriguing novel that never quite lets the reader get comfortable. It understands about the fuzzy boundary between the normal and the strange, and weaves them together in a gripping, ever-darkening narrative - Jenny Diski

    • who wouldn't kill for a comic gift like Jenn Ashworth's? - Guardian</i

    • a hugely readable debut novel...about the inability to know others and ourselves - Independent

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    Jenn Ashworth

    Jenn Ashworth

    Jenn Ashworth is the author of the novels A Kind of Intimacy, which won a Betty Trask Award, Cold Light, The Friday Gospels, Fell and Ghosted: A Love Story, which was shortlisted for the Portico Prize. In 2011, she was featured on BBC Two's The Culture Show as one of the twelve Best New British Novelists. She has also written a memoir-in-essays, Notes Made While Falling, which was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. She lives in Lancashire and is a Professor of Writing at Lancaster University.

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