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Overview

Like Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin and Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend, this gripping novel pulls you toward its unimaginable climax and will leave you haunted and heartbroken.

Spoiled but emotionally neglected Gemma, who seems to have everything, and semi-feral Pauline, who has less than nothing, are two very different ten-year-old girls growing up in a tough Yorkshire town in the 1970s. Pauline longs for the simple luxuries of Gemma’s life: her neatly folded socks and her clean hair. Gemma, upset by her parent’s breakup, loses herself in fantasies of meeting the child television star Lallie. When Lallie shoots a movie in their hometown, Gemma and Pauline grab the chance for their wildest dreams to come true. But the film becomes a terrible catalyst for the larger forces acting on the two girls, a dysfunctional adult world that trickles down to the children; and playground bullying escalates, with dreadful consequences.

Editorial Reviews

The Times
“One of the most compelling novels published this year... Its savage wit and transporting eye for detail are the things that keep you along for the ride.”
Marie Claire UK
“[An] impressive debut… A dark, disturbing look at a 1970s childhood, as a tetchy relationship between two schoolgirls culminates ?in a truly shocking ending.”
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Sunday Times
“One of the most masterly, disturbing pieces of fiction I have read in a long while... will leave you haunted long after you've read the final page.”
The Daily Mail
“...superbly plotted, building, from seemingly disparate elements, with a dread inevitability to a tense and shocking finale.”
The Guardian
“Despite the undercurrents of violence and sex, this is really a story about character: how childhood innocence is lost, cynicism gained, morality discovered and then, perhaps, lost again… a terrific debut, full of energy and color; as propulsive as a thriller.”

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780393081381
  • Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
  • Publication date: 3/19/2012
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 57,736
  • Product dimensions: 8.40 (w) x 5.80 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Amanda Coe is a writer and screenwriter whose television credits include the British series Shameless. She lives in London.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 7, 2012

    Disgusting

    Please don't buy and/or read this book. There is nothing edifying or redeaming in this book. It will leave you with an awful feeling about all characters involved. A shame that this could pass for any form of entertainment. I really should have just stopped reading it somewhere in the middle. I'm sorry that I didn't.

    3 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 7, 2012

    This book is beautifully written. The characters are Completely

    This book is beautifully written. The characters are Completely believable. As I read it I had some sort of an idea what might be coming but nothing prepared me for the ending, I actually closed my eyes and had to stop reading for moments. It truly is a shocking and heartbreaking ending that will stay with you long after you have finished reading it.

    2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 27, 2012

    Read anything else.

    A horrible read.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted April 24, 2012

    Terrible - Do not buy this book

    I found this book to be extremely boring. I was always wondering when something was ever going to happen. When it finally did at the very end, it was absolutely disgusting and I am very disappointed that I wasted my time reading this book.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 18, 2012

    BORING, WASTE OF MY TIME AND MONEY. THE BOOK JUMPS ALL AROUND A

    BORING, WASTE OF MY TIME AND MONEY. THE BOOK JUMPS ALL AROUND AND SEEMS TO LEAVE A HUGE PART OF THE STORY OUT.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted April 16, 2012

    The book takes place over the summer months of 1975. A child sta

    The book takes place over the summer months of 1975. A child star, Lallie Paluza, is filming a movie about a young girl’s encounter with a pedophile, which has disastrous consequences. Concurrently, another story is playing out. Two ten or eleven year old schoolgirls, Pauline and Gemma, from two completely different walks of life, develop and odd relationship which barely resembles friendship. Most of the characters featured, in both narratives, seem severely dysfunctional in some way or to be the product of deviant backgrounds or lifestyles. They have little regard for the consequences of their actions and believe the means justifies the ends. Parental influence, when featured, is almost negligible or negative
    Pauline is penniless; she lives in a state of open depravity in a home filled with an odd assortment of relatives and visitors. She is exposed to a lifestyle far beyond her years without the mental or emotional capacity to process it. Her mom is in and out of jail, as a lady of the night. Pauline can be cruel and completely ungovernable. She does as she pleases, when she pleases. She has no guidance and has no moral compass. She seems to have no conscience. She is streetwise and a bully.
    Gemma lives with her mom and her mom’s boyfriend, in a good neighborhood with many advantages, but she misses her dad. On the outside, she appears to be living in a healthy, wholesome environment. She is obsessed with her adoration for the child star, Lallie. Under her goody two-shoes personality there lurks a subtle mean or angry core that shows itself with surprising vehemence. She is a seething combination of confused emotions.
    This novel is very unsettling. The subject matter that is hinted at, as the story moves back and forth from the movie set to Pauline and Gemma, is often unnerving. Underneath the main storyline the reader may anxiously feel a suspicion that there is a more than a casual relationship between the storyline of Lallie Paluza and that of Gemma and Pauline. About halfway through the novel, the narratives actually intersect for awhile, as the movie crew comes to town to choose extras for the Lallie Paluza movie. As I read, I always had the feeling of an unknown dread, an unspoken violence that was lurking beneath the dialogue.
    The storyline in the Gemma/Pauline chapters is very easy to follow and effortlessly holds the readers interest, but the switch to the story about Lallie sometimes feels disjointed and is not always a smooth enough transition to make the reader aware immediately that the venue has changed. Often it is hard to figure out which character is being featured and in what story the character plays the part. That was the weakest part of the novel since it was not as engaging.
    I received this book from Goodreads. For a first novel, the author has done an excellent job of putting pen to paper. It is creative and well written. Most of the important characters are well defined and although the reader might not want to picture the scenes because of their nature, the author does a good job of painting them for the imagination.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted May 7, 2012

    Interesting

    I did finish reading the whole thing, so it definitely kept my interest. A couple of things, however, disappointed me. Since the story is told from the points of view of different characters, I did get confused one or two times as to which character's story we were seeing. That pulled me out of the tale until it got figured out. The second, I was expecting a more intense story. It just felt a little flat and distant to me. Too many scenes of unhappy characters whining about their unhappy lives. I also expected more detail at the end in regards to the fates and especially feelings of the main characters after their horrible deed.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 30, 2012

    Worst book I've ever read - cannot believe I spent money on this

    Worst book I've ever read - cannot believe I spent money on this - don't remember where I read a good review but it was absolutely a miserable read! Don't buy it - don't waste time and $$ on it

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 17, 2012

    Disappointing

    Although the characters were well written the story was disjointed and boring when not focusing on pauline and gemma. And i felt the ending was completely random. Wish i wouldnt have wasted my time and money.

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 1, 2012

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