Bitch Goddess Notebook by
Martha O'Connor
pbk out June 05
(Orion)
at £9.99
Reminiscent of Donna Tart's The Secret History, this story of three high
school girls managing chaotic and damaged lives through the powerful bond
of teenage friendship is likely to become a cult classic. Attractive, clever
Rennie has an affair with her drama teacher, Amy, the child of drunks, leaves
the cheerleaders to join forces with the misfits and Cherry, who tries to care
for her drug addled mother as well as her friends, is the visible delinquent.
But their liaison leads to a savage act that defines the rest of their lives.
Cutting between the three characters in the past and fifteen years later, The
Bitch Goddess Notebook is a mesmerising account of the magic of friendship
as well as a piercing look at the empty façade of life in small town USA in the
1980's. A stifling and barren cultural environment where the girls seeks
escape through drugs and teenage kicks. An astounding debut novel from
poet Martha O'Connor. Honest, affecting and well-written.
(
Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder)
Bitch Goddess Notebook by
Martha O'Connor
