My Summer of Love - Softcover

Cross, Helen

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ISBN 10: 0747557829 ISBN 13: 9780747557821

Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2002

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It's 1984 and one of the hottest summers Yorkshire's seen. It's the kind of woozy heat to lose your mind in. Mona is fifteen years old. She's a drinker, a thief and a fruit machine addict. Things are already going badly in the pub where she lives with her obese step-brother PorkChop. But when Mona meets posh Tamsin Fakenham, a sassy girl with beautiful breasts, an actress mother and a sister who's died of starvation, things very quickly get much worse...

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It's 1984 and one of the hottest summers Yorkshire's seen. It's the kind of woozy heat to lose your mind in...

Mona is fifteen years old. She's a drinker, a thief and a fruit machine addict. Things are already going badly in the pub where she lives with her obese step-brother PorkChop. But when Mona meets posh Tamsin Fakenham, a sassy girl with beautiful breasts, an actress mother and a sister who's died of starvation, things very quickly get much worse...

Winner of the Betty Trask Award 2002. "The Last Resort," the 2004 film of the novel directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, won the 2004 BAFTA (British Oscar) for Best British Film.

About the Author:

Helen Cross was born in 1967 and brought up in East Yorkshire. She currently lives in Birmingham. This is her first novel.

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