Penance Av Eliza Clark

<p><b>A GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST 2023</b><br><b><br>''One of the summer¿s most talked-about books.'' <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i><br></b><b>¿An unmissable banger that you need to preorder immediately.¿ ALICE SLATER<br>¿A meta-meditation on the mysteries, malice, and minutiae of adolescence.¿ TOM BENN<br>¿You¿ve never read anything like this.¿ JULIA ARMFIELD</b><br><i><br><b>Do you know what happened already? </b></i><b><i>Did you know her? </i><i>Did you see it on the internet? </i><i>Did you listen to a podcast? </i><i>Did the hosts make jokes?</i><br><br><i>Did you see the pictures of the body? </i><br><br><i>Did you look for them?</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>That story is <i>Penance,</i> a dizzying feat of masterful storytelling, where Eliza Clark manoeuvres us through accounts from the inhabitants o