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TONY HOGAN BOUGHT ME AN ICE-CREAM FLOAT BEFORE HE STOLE MY MA By: Kerry Hudson
Penguin
February 2014
On Sale: January 28, 2014
Featuring: Tony Hogan
272 pages ISBN: 0143124641 EAN: 9780143124641 Kindle: B00DMCV3NQ Paperback / e-Book
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Women's Fiction
Reminiscent of early Roddy Doyle, Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma begins with our singular heroineβs less than idyllic birth and quickly moves to a spectacular fight that lands Janie and her mother in a local womenβs shelter. From there itβs on to a dodgy council flat and a succession of unsuitable men, including the hard-drinking, drug-dealing, ice-cream-buying Tony Hogan. Kerry Hudsonβs arrestingly original debut will enthrall readers with Janieβs tragicomic and moving story about coming of age in a non-traditional family amid the absurdities of the 1980s and Thatcherite Britain.
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