The Artificial Anatomy of Parks by Kat Gordon

The Artificial Anatomy of Parks by Kat Gordon

**Shortlisted for the Not The Booker Award**

At twenty-one, Tallulah Park lives alone in a grimy bedsit. There s a sink in her bedroom and a strange damp smell that means she wakes up wheezing. Then she gets the call that her father has had a heart attack. Years before, she was being tossed around her difficult family; a world of sniping aunts, precocious cousins, emigrant pianists and lots of gin, all presided over by an unconventional grandmother. But no one was answering Tallie s questions: why did Aunt Vivienne loathe Tallie's mother? Who was Uncle Jack and why would no one talk about him? And why was everyone making excuses for her absent father? As Tallie grows up, she learns the hard way about damage and betrayal, that in the end, the worst betrayals are those we inflict on ourselves. This is her story about the journey from love to loss and back again.

Gordon, Kat: - Kat Gordon read English at Somerville College, Oxford and worked at Time Out briefly after graduating, before travelling around America for 3 months then returning to Africa to travel and work as a teacher and HIV counsellor. Since finishing her MA in Creative Writing in 2009 she also worked as a gymnastics coach. She lives with her boyfriend (also a writer), and their cat. Seven months ago they moved to Budapest, and then Reykjavik, to concentrate on writing and to see some Icelandic trolls.

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ISBN 13	9781785079863
ISBN 10	1785079867
Title	The Artificial Anatomy of Parks
Author	Kat Gordon
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Legend Press Ltd
Year published	2015-07-01
Number of pages	400
Prizes	Winner of Soberistas July Book of the Month., Winner of Noveltunity July Pick of the Month., Winner of Hive Rising Writers Pick., Short-listed for Not The Booker Prize.
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