Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeLonglisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel“This lacerating, exhilarating debut novel . . . manages to be both boisterous and bleak, life-enhancing and life-denying, familiar and yet wholly original. It feels essential. You will probably read nothing else like it this year.”—The Guardian“A brilliant portrait of...

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“A brilliant portrait of female friendship, nearly the equal in honesty and subtlety to Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)An exuberant and ribald debut novel about three adolescent girls, as sweetly vulnerable as they are cunning and tough, coming of age in a gritty postindustrial town in nineties Yorkshire, England“Ask anyone non-Northern, they’ll only know Donny as punchli...

“A brilliant portrait of female friendship, nearly the equal in honesty and subtlety to Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)An exuberant and ribald debut novel about three adolescent girls, as sweetly vulnerable as they are cunning and tough, coming of age in a gritty postindustrial town in nineties Yorkshire, England“Ask anyone non-Northern, they’ll only know Donny as punchli...