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What do you do when your husband is a manic depressive and your mother is a lesbian, alcoholic and feminist icon? How do you cope with years of media speculation over your father's identity when you have no idea who he is yourself?
In Molly Flynn's case, you pull on your fishnets, kick up your heels and head from London to the West Coast of America. At age 25 Molly is ostensibly in the States to visit her Californian husband, Tom, now living with his parents after a messy breakdown. However the only affordable ticket sends her straight to Seattle where she begins an eventful two-month trip down the coast to see him.
The Naked Season is a novel about life at its most colourful, the crossroads where the ridiculous meets the sublime. It is for anyone who believes wholeheartedly in amusement and the eternal comic premise - drunk people are funny.
“A smart, surprising and confident novel. Kira Cochrane proves herself one of the best young writers around.” Julie Burchill
“Superbly entertaining” She magazine
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| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Simon & Schuster |
| The Netherlands | Uitgeverij M |
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THE SECOND BOOK IN A MAJOR SIX-FIGURE
TWO-BOOK DEAL
A DELICIOUSLY BLACK AND INGENIOUS NOVEL
Trapped on the tiny prison island where her father works as a correctional officer, thirteen-year-old Rita Mae Jones longs to escape. Entranced by the stories of her grandmother’s glamorous Hollywood past and convinced of her own glittering future as an internationally acclaimed actress, the unhappy teenager yearns to break free from the island’s humdrum existence.
Rita Mae cannot understand why her alarmingly mismatched parents chose to come to this claustrophobic, brooding place ten years before. Even less can she understand why her emotionally repressed, socially ambitious mother and her fond but ineffectual father came to be married in the first place.
But there are many things Rita Mae doesn’t understand about her family.
A prison riot is the catalyst which kickstarts a series of shocking revelations as the Jones family’s disturbing secrets come tumbling into the open.
Surreal, subversive and deliciously black, Escape Routes for Beginners is the second ingenious, inventive and extraordinary novel to affirm Kira Cochrane’s position as one of the most promising new writers of the decade.
“Neatly balanced by dry humour and affecting characterization, it emerges as an engaging account of a search for identity through sexuality, politics and origins.” The Sunday Times
“A smart, surprising and confident novel. Kira Cochrane proves herself one of the best young writers around.” - Julie Burchill
"Superbly entertaining”- She magazine
“A punchy debut novel written with few holds barred”- Observer
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| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Simon & Schuster |
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