{"product_id":"penance-a-novel","title":"Penance: A Novel","description":"One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists 2023\n“Eliza Clark’s writing embraces the socially unacceptable and wryly explores themes of gender, power, and violence.”—Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 2023\n“Chilling, clever, and unputdownable.”—Guardian\nFrom the author of the cult hit Boy Parts comes a chilling psychological thriller, a 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.\nOn 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.\nNearly 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.\nBut how much of the story is true?\nCompulsively 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0063327856\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0063327856.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Clark, Eliza\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41570623553594,"sku":"DBV.0063327856.G","price":8.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0063327856-0.jpg?v=1785464870","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/penance-a-novel","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}