• Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize
  Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize
  
  From the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award
  
  The lives of three teenage girls are torn apart by a secret in this gut-punch of a novel for fans of Eliza Clark and Megan Nolan
  
  'It feels essential. You will read nothing else like it this year' GUARDIAN
  'Blistering, brilliant, savage and smart' EIMEAR McBRIDE
  
  
  Ask anyone non-Northern, they ll only know Donny as punch line of a joke or place they changed trains once ont way to London.
  
  But Doncaster s also the home of Rach, Shaz and Kel, bezzies since childhood and Donny lasses through and through. They share everything, from blagging their way into nightclubs to trips to the Family Planning clinic when they are late. Never mind that Rach is skeptical of Shaz s bolder plots; or that Shaz, who comes from a rougher end of town, feels left behind when the others begin charting a course to uni; or that Kel sometimes feels split in two trying to keep the peace - their friendship is as indestructible as they are. But as they grow up and away from one another, a long-festering secret threatens to rip the trio apart.
  
  An astonishing polyphonic debut Irish Times, Books of the Year
  Sublime Roisin O Donnell
  'Brilliant and original on every level... she is a writer like nobody else' Elizabeth McCracken
  Electrifying Written in what feels like a new and utterly distinctive female voice, it is very hard to put down Mark Haddon

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