Pompidou Posse - Softcover

Lotz, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 147361399X ISBN 13: 9781473613997

Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks, 2016

Synopsis

You're seventeen. One night, more or less by accident, you set fire to a garden shed.Naturally, you pack up and run off to Paris, certain you can make enough money off your art to get by. You're young, you're pretty, you're full of life, and you have your best friend in all the world by your side.What could possibly go wrong?Sarah Lotz's hilarious, heartbreaking first novel has only ever been published in South Africa - Hodder & Stoughton are proud to be brining it to a world-wide audience, newly edited and with an all-new cover.

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About the Author

Sarah Lotz is a screenwriter and novelist who pens novels under the name S.L Grey with author Louis Greenberg; YA novels with her daughter, as Lily Herne; and is one third of pseudonymous author Helena S. Paige. Lauren Beukes calls her 'a natural-born storyteller. Like the hand reaching up from the dark well, she'll drag you into her thrall. You'll come up gasping.' Sarah lives in England with her family and other animals.

Review

A raw, honest, and ultimately heart-breaking novel, for anyone who ever wondered what it was like to be down and out in Paris when you're young and vulnerable. It's devastatingly good. -- Lavie Tidhar, author of A MAN LIES DREAMING POMPIDOU POSSE is an exquisitely written story about a friendship on the edge. At turns, hilarious, heartwarming and shocking, Sarah Lotz brings to vivid life the gritty underbelly of Paris with such wit and empathy, you feel as if you have walked the streets alongside her. She is a writer at the top of her game, or any game -- Kim Curran, author of GLAZE Book of the Week. This thrilling read sees teen besties Vicki and Sage fleep to Paris after accidentally setting fire to a shed on their school grounds. But life on the streets of the city of love isn't quite what they expected - and nor is their friendship - as they do everything they can to survive. * New Magazine * With Pompidou Posse, Sarah Lotz has accomplished a tremendous feat--she has managed to craft a novel that is both uproariously funny and also heartbreakingly honest. An absolute must read. -- Jasmine Warga, author of MY HEART AND OTHER BLACK HOLES Vivid, dark and absorbing, Sarah Lotz is a fiction powerhouse. -- Sarah Pinborough, author of THE DEATH HOUSE Honest, spiky and very, very real, POMPIDOU POSSE will - like its characters - stay with you for a very long time. -- Maggie Harcourt, author of THE LAST SUMMER OF US A harrowing, yet darkly comedic, yarn that grabs you immediately and never lets go. * iAfrica * Sets a high standard - and not only for debut novels. It is funny, scary, thrilling, and wild. * Brainwavez * POMPIDOU POSSE is a heart-warming, touching and painfully funny book. It is a triumph of a debut novel and hopefully the first of many from this awesome new writer. * Something Wicked *

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 147361399X
• ISBN 13: 9781473613997
• Binding: Paperback