Three Kinds of Kissing by Helen Lamb

Three Kinds of Kissing by Helen Lamb

Olive's only been gone a day, but Grace knows she's been lost much longer. Her schoolmate's disappearance forces Grace to recall the dark secrets she and Olive still share, including the one that shattered their friendship. With the adults around her caught up in their own drama, Grace struggles to make sense of things before she too becomes lost.

Three Kinds of Kissing is the sort of book that makes you forget there is an author involvedIt captures both the mood of a small-town community at a particular moment of change between the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the sulky, eager, sniping, adventurous minds of the girls who are its central characters, caught between childhood and adolescence, yearning for the security of home and family yet also desperate to escape. And it shows with unerring accuracy how, as adults, most of us never stop being the children we once were. - James Robertson; Helen Lamb's writing has the quiet beauty of a summer's day, the kind where you realise the birds have stopped singing and the air is thick with tension. Psychologically insightful and emotionally sensitive, with moments of sharp humour that nip you playfully when you least expect it, this book is a delight. Three Kinds of Kissing has a missing girl, a house full of clocks, a granny who keeps her treacle scones in the strangest place - and so much more, all rumbling behind closed small-town doors. A coming-of-age classic. - Magi Gibson; Three Kinds of Kissing is a modern classic about friendship, loss of innocence and the myriad ways families can self-implode. - Cynthia Rogerson

Helen Lamb was a fiction writer and poet from Dunblane whose work was widely published in literary journals and anthologies. Many of her stories were broadcast on radio, and her poems have been reproduced as National Poetry Day postcards. She received Scottish Arts Council writing bursaries in 1999 and 2002, and was appointed a Royal Literary Fund Fellow in 2003. Helen's books include a poetry collection with Magi Gibson titled Strange Fish (Duende, 1997), and a short story collection, Superior Bedsits (Polygon, 2001). Helen died in 2017, shortly after completing her first novel, Three Kinds of Kissing.

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ISBN 13	9781908251916
ISBN 10	1908251913
Title	Three Kinds of Kissing
Author	Helen Lamb
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vagabond Voices
Year published	2018-10-10
Number of pages	186
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