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Never mind that Rach is skeptical of Shaz’s bolder plots; or that Shaz, who comes from a rougher end of town, feels left behind when the others begin charting a course to uni; or that Kel sometimes feels split in two trying to keep the peace — their friendship is as indestructible as they are. But as they grow up and away from one another, a long-festering secret threatens to rip the trio apart.  We Pretty Pieces of Flesh takes you by the hand and leads you through Doncaster’s schoolyards, alleyways and nightclubs, laying bare the intimate treacheries of adolescence and the ways we betray ourselves when we don’t trust our friends. Like The Glorious Heresies and Shuggie Bain, it tracks hard-edged lives and makes them sing, turning one overlooked place into the very centre of the world.  'A novel brimming with rough poetry, heart and mischief' FERDIA LENNON 'Unforgettable...a wondrous, luminous novel' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH 'Brilliant and original on every level... she is a writer like nobody else' ELIZABETH McCRACKEN ‘Electrifying… Written in what feels like a new and utterly distinctive female voice, it is very hard to put down’ MARK HADDON","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51123559694609,"sku":"NGR9781784745578","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51252524581137,"sku":"GOR014208920","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52691442237713,"sku":"NLS9781784745578","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53143116906769,"sku":"GOR014771389","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53336753668369,"sku":"GOR014856920","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/178474557X.jpg?v=1769681499"},{"product_id":"we-pretty-pieces-of-flesh-book-colwill-brown-9781250342881","title":"We Pretty Pieces of Flesh","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the PEN\/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"This lacerating, exhilarating debut novel . . . manages to be both boisterous and bleak, life-enhancing and life-denying, familiar and yet wholly original. 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