When her mother is sent to prison for three months for assaulting a policeman with a stiletto shoe, fifteen-year-old Caris goes gently off the rails. Whilst her taxi-driver father Mac attempts to keep the family together, Caris meets George, a boy from the other side of the vale and from a very different sort of family. Their relationship leads her away from school and what she has known, into a new and unnerving world - and looks set to throw the family into terrifying chaos. Julia Darling's acclaimed novel blends the gritty and the everyday with the evocative and the enchanting, to create an original, inventive and often moving portrayal of family ties, suburban life, love and growing up.

The Taxi Driver's Daughter

julia-darling

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Books, Limited (UK)

Crocodile Soup

Gert is a curator in a northern museum. Through a series of flashbacks, she describes her eccentric and often surreal childhood - a hopelessly vain mother, a father constantly away at his African crocodile farm, and a brother who becomes a monk.

Penguin??Books

<p>A Collaborative Work by Gonzalo Diaz, The Poetry Virgins, North Shields People's Centre Photography Group</p>

Modern riddles: A collaborative work : with installations, poetry & photography

Ellen Phethean

Gonzalo Jair Diaz

Artists' Agency & Diamond Twig Press

The Taxi Driver's Daughter Large Print

Clipper

Contemporary

Anchor Fiction

Bloodlines

Panurge Publishing

<p>Julia Darling's first book, Sudden Collapses in Public Places, grew from her experiences of being treated for breast cancer; it] helped me to step out of the difficult present and to use my imagination to be somewhere else. Her second collection looks at the world beyond the hospital, though still from the viewpoint of a cancer patient in the advanced stages of the illness. The themes are familiar, but here she writes with a wider perspective, a deeper understanding which reach out to the heart of the human condition and the greater mysteries of life, albeit in an understated way. This is a powerful and deeply affecting book, completely unsentimental yet charged with emotion - indeed, one of those rare books that have a profound and lasting effect.</p>

Apology for Absence

Poetry

Arc Publications

Indelible Miraculous

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