Awards

• Short-listed for Not The Booker Prize.
• Winner of Hive Rising Writers Pick.
• Winner of Noveltunity July Pick of the Month.
• Winner of Soberistas July Book of the Month.

Overview

Shortlisted for the The Guardian Not The Booker Prize‘done with conviction and charm... a genuine and sincere expression of a troubled young soul.’ The Guardian At twenty-one, Tallulah Park lives alone in a grimy bedsit. There’s a sink in her bedroom and a strange damp smell that means she wakes up wheezing. Then she gets the call that her father has had a heart attack. Years before, she was being tossed around her difficult family; a world of sniping aunts, precocious cousins, emigrant pianists and lots of gin, all presided over by an unconventional grandmother. But no one was answering Tallie’s questions: why did Aunt Vivienne loathe Tallie’s mother? Why is everyone making excuses for her absent father? Who was Uncle Jack and why would no one talk about him? As Tallie grows up, she learns the hard way about damage and betrayal, that in the end, the worst betrayals are those we inflict on ourselves. This is her story about the journey from love to loss and back again. ‘Exquisite and understated... an autopsy of how we love and an exploration of forgiveness, both disturbing and shimmering in deceptive simplicity.’ Liza Klaussmann, Tigers in Red Weather

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A compulsive family drama, Tallulah Park explores the devastating effects of keeping secrets. Kat Gordon deftly tells the story of Tallulah s past, building to a dramatic, unputdownable conclusion in her present. An excellent read. Emma Chapman, author, <i>How To Be a Good Wife</i>

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Kat Gordon read English at Somerville College, Oxford and worked at Time Out briefly after graduating, before travelling around America for 3 months then returning to Africa to travel and work as a teacher and HIV counsellor. Since finishing her MA in Creative Writing in 2009 she also worked as a gymnastics coach. She lives with her boyfriend (also a writer), and their cat. Seven months ago they moved to Budapest, and then Reykjavik, to concentrate on writing and to see some Icelandic trolls.

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