Published in 2024
4 hours and 40 minutes
Phoebe Stuckes is a writer and poet. Her work has appeared in The Poetry Review, The Rialto, The North and Ambit among others. Her debut pamphlet, Gin & Tonic was published by The Poetry Business and shortlisted for The Michael Marks Award. She has been awarded an Eric Gregory Award and The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize. Her first full-length collection, Platinum Blonde was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2020 and was highly commended by The Forward Prizes. Her most recent pamphlet The One Girl Gremlin was published by Verve Poetry Press in 2021.
What is this book about?
There is something creeping at the edge of your vision, lingering somewhere just out of focus. All it would take is to let your mind wander, to let it come into view.
A young woman wakes after a house party with scratches and bruises – and a gap in her memory.
As the violent truth comes back to her – a series of events she struggles to name – her anger grows.
Solace comes in the form of enigmatic, captivating Helene, who knows what the man at the party did, has suffered at his hands too. An act of violence demands one in return and Helene is planning revenge.
But who can afford to ask for justice, when the cost is murderously high?
