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Needlework

by Deirdre Sullivan


Winner of the CBI Book of the Year Honour Award for Fiction for 2017. Shortlisted for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Specsavers Children's Book of the Year Award - Senior for 2016.'I would like to make things beautiful, but a tawdry and repulsive kind of beauty. A braver sort than people have from birth. Sexy zombies on a bicep. That sort of thing.' Ces longs to be a tattoo artist and embroider skin with beautiful images. But for now she's just trying to reach adulthood without falling apart. Powerful, poetic and disturbing, Needlework is a girl's meditation on her efforts to maintain her bodily and spiritual integrity in the face of abuse, violation and neglect.

ISBN: 9781910411506

€ 9.99 

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Date of Publication: 25/02/2016

  
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Needlework also appears in these Categories:

Age 15+ Young Adult

CBI Book Awards