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Also by Eliza Clark:

She's Always Hungry, November 2024
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Penance, October 2023
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Boy Parts, May 2023
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Penance
Eliza Clark

A Novel

HarperCollins Publishers
October 2023
On Sale: September 26, 2023
Featuring: Alec Z. Carelli
304 pages
ISBN: 0063327856
EAN: 9780063327856
Kindle: B0BR4172DW
Hardcover / e-Book
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Coming of Age | Mystery | Thriller

One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists 2023 

From the author of the cult hit Boy Parts comes a chilling, brilliantly told story of murder among a group of teenage girls—a powerful and disturbing novel as piercing in its portrait of young women as Emma Cline’s The Girls.

On a beach in a run-down seaside town on the Yorkshire coastline, sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson is set on fire by three other schoolgirls.

Nearly a decade after the horrifying murder, journalist Alec Z. Carelli has written the definitive account of the crime, drawn from hours of interviews with witnesses and family members, painstaking historical research, and most notably, correspondence with the killers themselves. The result is a riveting snapshot of lives rocked by tragedy, and a town left in turmoil.

But how much of the story is true?

Compulsively readable, provocative, and disturbing, Penance is a cleverly nuanced, unflinching exploration of gender, class, and power that raises troubling questions about the media and our obsession with true crime while bringing to light the depraved side of human nature and our darkest proclivities.

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