 | Five Miles from Outer Hope by Nicola Barker
Buy used from: £0.01 The narrator is given a remarkable voice: once heard, never forgotten! Classic Nicola Barker. (Get the one with the centipede on the cover.)
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 | The Dive from Clausen's Pier (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ann Packer
Buy used from: £0.01 A shocking accident forces a rather cloistered young woman into maturity. Not the "single issue" book you might expect, but subtle & complex.
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 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Popular Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 Love it or loathe it, this is the Ur-text of male adolescence...
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 | Pilgrimage: v. 1 (Virago Modern Classics) by Dorothy M. Richardson
Buy new: £13.30 / Used from: £12.65 Neglected Modernist classic; not nearly as heavy going as I would have expected.
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 | The Fish Can Sing (Panther) by Halldor Laxness
Buy new: £3.06 / Used from: £1.95 Touchingly offbeat tale of a young lad growing up in Iceland
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 | Frankie and Stankie by Barbara Trapido
Buy new: £0.02 / Used from: £0.01 Trapido handles thorny issues (such as growing up white in S. Africa under apartheid) with her usual deceptively light touch. Great stuff.
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 | Love in Idleness by Charlotte Mendelson
Buy new: £2.43 / Used from: £1.21 Another unforgettable central character. Remarkably honest & surprisingly sexy, though on the face of it nothing much happens...
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 | The Virgin in the Garden by A. S. Byatt
Buy used from: £2.37 The first of four novels concerning the life of young Frederica, who starts off here as a precociously bright but socially inept schoolgirl...
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 | Bright Angel Time by Martha McPhee
Buy used from: £0.71 When the adults start behaving like kids, a child might have to grow up quickly.
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 | The Tenants of Moonbloom (New York Review Books Classics) by Edward Lewis Wallant
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.36 The great thing about growing up is that it can be done at any age! The awakening of a late developer...
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