Penance by Eliza Clark (HC)
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It's been nearly a decade since the horrifying murder of sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson rocked Crow-on-Sea, and the events of that terrible night are now being published for the first time.
That story is Penance, a dizzying feat of masterful storytelling, where Eliza Clark manoeuvres us through accounts from the inhabitants of this small seaside town. Placing us in the capable hands of journalist Alec Z. Carelli, Clark allows him to construct what he claims is the 'definitive account' of the murder - and what led up to it. Built on hours of interviews with witnesses and family members, painstaking historical research, and most notably, correspondence with the killers themselves, the result is a riveting snapshot of lives rocked by tragedy, and a town left in turmoil.
REVIEWS
"As bleak as it is compelling, Penance is a perfect dark satire of the voyeuristic true crime industry and the media's complicity in sensationalising the pointless destruction of human lives into a vulgar, grubby money-making circus." - Charlotte Vassell
"Fans of Joseph Knox's True Crime Story and Megan Abbott's teen noirs will love Clark's meta-meditation on the mysteries, malice, and minutiae of adolescence." - Tom Benn
"I loved Boy Parts but this was another creature entirely. Coolly detached, stricter, cleaner, and still insanely propulsive. Vivid, excellent dialogue, at times heartbreaking. She's a master of structure that Clark." - Jenny Mustard
PRODUCT DETAILS
Hardcover Edition
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 978-0571371761
Pages: 448
That story is Penance, a dizzying feat of masterful storytelling, where Eliza Clark manoeuvres us through accounts from the inhabitants of this small seaside town. Placing us in the capable hands of journalist Alec Z. Carelli, Clark allows him to construct what he claims is the 'definitive account' of the murder - and what led up to it. Built on hours of interviews with witnesses and family members, painstaking historical research, and most notably, correspondence with the killers themselves, the result is a riveting snapshot of lives rocked by tragedy, and a town left in turmoil.
REVIEWS
"As bleak as it is compelling, Penance is a perfect dark satire of the voyeuristic true crime industry and the media's complicity in sensationalising the pointless destruction of human lives into a vulgar, grubby money-making circus." - Charlotte Vassell
"Fans of Joseph Knox's True Crime Story and Megan Abbott's teen noirs will love Clark's meta-meditation on the mysteries, malice, and minutiae of adolescence." - Tom Benn
"I loved Boy Parts but this was another creature entirely. Coolly detached, stricter, cleaner, and still insanely propulsive. Vivid, excellent dialogue, at times heartbreaking. She's a master of structure that Clark." - Jenny Mustard
PRODUCT DETAILS
Hardcover Edition
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 978-0571371761
Pages: 448