Scapegrace by Jackie Gay
Scapegrace n. arch.: A mischievous or wayward person, especially a young person or child; a rascal. Five teenage girls who share everything: clothes, hopes, fears and secrets. But the world is changing as fast as the girls and the group fragments, stirring frightening but exhilarating forces. Gina is accused of arson, her brother Johnny of dealing drugs Rose frets over her awakening desires Alice is disturbed by mysterious spirits Cora flaunts her self recklessly, and Ellie knows there is more to growing up than all of this. 21 years later Alice, the centre of this group of 70s 'bad girls', gives up her struggle to conform and returns home. To find her lost friends, map her own identity and make sense of the intense heat she ran from all those years ago. Jackie Gay's first novel is a tenderly sardonic account of growing up in the wrong. A fiery mixture of desire, conflict and hard-won outlaw pride.
JACKIE GAY was born in Birmingham and travelled in Europe, Asia, the Far East and Africa before returning home to write. She says: 'As a writer I have always been interested in "outsiders". Becoming disabled myself made me sharply aware of what it means to be regarded by society as a problem, an issue rather than an individual. This experience is at the core of my decision over the structure of Wist - I didn't want to signal disability as key from the beginning because I felt it would overshadow other storylines and themes. This isn't because I see disability as less important, but to show that disability is part of life, but only ever a part of an individual's existence.'
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| ISBN 13 | 9780953589517 |
| ISBN 10 | 095358951X |
| Title | Scapegrace |
| Author | Jackie Gay |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2000-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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