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Burning Bright
Nadine, a sixteen-year-old runaway new to London, is set up in a decaying Georgian house by her Finnish lover, Kai. Slowly, she begins to suspect that Kai's plans for her have little to do with love.
'Be careful,' warns Enid, the elderly sitting tenant in the house, who knows all about survival and secrets. And when Nadine discovers Kai's true intentions, Enid's warning takes on a terrible and prophetic quality.
'Be careful,' warns Enid, the elderly sitting tenant in the house, who knows all about survival and secrets. And when Nadine discovers Kai's true intentions, Enid's warning takes on a terrible and prophetic quality.
263 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1994
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About the author
Helen Dunmore
117 books971 followersI was born in December 1952, in Yorkshire, the second of four children. My father was the eldest of twelve, and this extended family has no doubt had a strong influence on my life, as have my own children. In a large family you hear a great many stories. You also come to understand very early that stories hold quite different meanings for different listeners, and can be recast from many viewpoints.
Poetry was very important to me from childhood. I began by listening to and learning by heart all kinds of rhymes and hymns and ballads, and then went on to make up my own poems, using the forms I’d heard. Writing these down came a little later.
I studied English at the University of York, and after graduation taught English as a foreign language in Finland.
At around this time I began to write the poems which formed my first poetry collection, The Apple Fall, and to publish these in magazines. I also completed two novels; fortunately neither survives, and it was more than ten years before I wrote another novel.
During this time I published several collections of poems, and wrote some of the short stories which were later collected in Love of Fat Men. I began to travel a great deal within the UK and around the world, for poetry tours and writing residences. This experience of working in many different countries and cultures has been very important to my work. I reviewed poetry for Stand and Poetry Review and later for The Observer, and subsequently reviewed fiction for The Observer, The Times and The Guardian. My critical work includes introductions to the poems of Emily Brontë, the short stories of D H Lawrence and F Scott Fitzgerald, a study of Virginia Woolf’s relationships with women and Introductions to the Folio Society's edition of Anna Karenina and to the new Penguin Classics edition of Tolstoy's My Confession.
During the 1980s and early 1990s I taught poetry and creative writing, tutored residential writing courses for the Arvon Foundation and took part in the Poetry Society's Writer in Schools scheme, as well as giving readings and workshops in schools, hospitals, prisons and every other kind of place where a poem could conceivably be welcome. I also taught at the University of Glamorgan, the University of Bristol's Continuing Education Department and for the Open College of the Arts.
In the late 1980s I began to publish short stories, and these were the beginning of a breakthrough into fiction. What I had learned of prose technique through the short story gave me the impetus to start writing novels. My first novel for children was Going to Egypt, published in 1992, and my first novel for adults was Zennor in Darkness, published in 1993, which won the McKitterick Prize. This was also my first researched novel, set in the First World War and dealing with the period when D H Lawrence and his wife Frieda lived in Zennor in Cornwall, and came under suspicion as German spies.
My third novel, A Spell of Winter, won the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction in 1996, and since then I have published a number of novels, short story collections and books for children. Full details of all these books are available on this website. The last of The Ingo Quartet, The Crossing of Ingo, was published in paperback in Spring 2009.
My seventh novel, The Siege (2001) was shortlisted both for the Whitbread Novel Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction. This was another researched novel, which grew from a lifelong love of Russian history, culture and literature. It is is set in Leningrad during the first year of the siege of the city by German forces, which lasted for 880 days from the fall of Mga on 30th August 1941. The Siege has been translated into Russian by Tatyana Averchina, and extracts have been broadcast on radio in St Petersburg. House of Orphans was published in 2006, and in 2008 Counting the Stars. Its central characters are the Roman poet Catullus, who lived during the last years of the Republic,
Poetry was very important to me from childhood. I began by listening to and learning by heart all kinds of rhymes and hymns and ballads, and then went on to make up my own poems, using the forms I’d heard. Writing these down came a little later.
I studied English at the University of York, and after graduation taught English as a foreign language in Finland.
At around this time I began to write the poems which formed my first poetry collection, The Apple Fall, and to publish these in magazines. I also completed two novels; fortunately neither survives, and it was more than ten years before I wrote another novel.
During this time I published several collections of poems, and wrote some of the short stories which were later collected in Love of Fat Men. I began to travel a great deal within the UK and around the world, for poetry tours and writing residences. This experience of working in many different countries and cultures has been very important to my work. I reviewed poetry for Stand and Poetry Review and later for The Observer, and subsequently reviewed fiction for The Observer, The Times and The Guardian. My critical work includes introductions to the poems of Emily Brontë, the short stories of D H Lawrence and F Scott Fitzgerald, a study of Virginia Woolf’s relationships with women and Introductions to the Folio Society's edition of Anna Karenina and to the new Penguin Classics edition of Tolstoy's My Confession.
During the 1980s and early 1990s I taught poetry and creative writing, tutored residential writing courses for the Arvon Foundation and took part in the Poetry Society's Writer in Schools scheme, as well as giving readings and workshops in schools, hospitals, prisons and every other kind of place where a poem could conceivably be welcome. I also taught at the University of Glamorgan, the University of Bristol's Continuing Education Department and for the Open College of the Arts.
In the late 1980s I began to publish short stories, and these were the beginning of a breakthrough into fiction. What I had learned of prose technique through the short story gave me the impetus to start writing novels. My first novel for children was Going to Egypt, published in 1992, and my first novel for adults was Zennor in Darkness, published in 1993, which won the McKitterick Prize. This was also my first researched novel, set in the First World War and dealing with the period when D H Lawrence and his wife Frieda lived in Zennor in Cornwall, and came under suspicion as German spies.
My third novel, A Spell of Winter, won the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction in 1996, and since then I have published a number of novels, short story collections and books for children. Full details of all these books are available on this website. The last of The Ingo Quartet, The Crossing of Ingo, was published in paperback in Spring 2009.
My seventh novel, The Siege (2001) was shortlisted both for the Whitbread Novel Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction. This was another researched novel, which grew from a lifelong love of Russian history, culture and literature. It is is set in Leningrad during the first year of the siege of the city by German forces, which lasted for 880 days from the fall of Mga on 30th August 1941. The Siege has been translated into Russian by Tatyana Averchina, and extracts have been broadcast on radio in St Petersburg. House of Orphans was published in 2006, and in 2008 Counting the Stars. Its central characters are the Roman poet Catullus, who lived during the last years of the Republic,
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June 17, 2017
Helen Dunmore is one of my mum's favourite novelists (the other being Barbara Trapido) and she raised me accordingly, with a steady diet of Dunmore's books for children. I wasn't allowed to read her books for adults though, and I kind of slowly forget I had ever wanted to. When she passed away earlier this month, my mum texted me asking if she could lend me her favourites of Dunmore's work - Burning Bright being the first of those.
Mostly, I really enjoyed it. Although the plot is arguably complex and dramatic, the way Dunmore writes makes it feel quite slow-paced. There's beautiful descriptions of things and a generally wonderful use of language. You can tell she's a poet too. Sometimes I wanted something more to come - a break from the calm prose - but it's a style she writes well in, so reading it is no hardship.
Mostly, I really enjoyed it. Although the plot is arguably complex and dramatic, the way Dunmore writes makes it feel quite slow-paced. There's beautiful descriptions of things and a generally wonderful use of language. You can tell she's a poet too. Sometimes I wanted something more to come - a break from the calm prose - but it's a style she writes well in, so reading it is no hardship.
January 11, 2022
This book has some of the most beautiful prose I've ever read
July 20, 2017
Enid is an elderly sitting tenant in a dilapidated house with 'potential for development'. Owners and squatters come and go, but Enid stays put. The latest owners are Tony and Kai, who get rid of the squatters and do up part of the house, and then Kai moves in with his much younger girlfriend, Nadine.
This is mainly Nadine's story and Tony and Kai's plans for her, which involve a prominent politician, Paul. It is not as sad a story as it might be for the scenario, Nadine is naive at times, but not really a victim of the older men's exploitation. Both Enid and Nadine have unexpected strengths of character which enable them to cope with their situations.
I realised I had read this book before when I was part way through it; I remembered Nadine and Kai, but had forgotten about Enid, Paul, Jenny and her baby, and all the early part of the book. The book is more memorable than that might suggest, as Nadine is by far the most interesting character.
One other positive outcome of reading the book for the second time is that I used some of my garden fruit to make a delicious Summer Pudding. It was 5* amazing, but the book was not quite.
This is mainly Nadine's story and Tony and Kai's plans for her, which involve a prominent politician, Paul. It is not as sad a story as it might be for the scenario, Nadine is naive at times, but not really a victim of the older men's exploitation. Both Enid and Nadine have unexpected strengths of character which enable them to cope with their situations.
I realised I had read this book before when I was part way through it; I remembered Nadine and Kai, but had forgotten about Enid, Paul, Jenny and her baby, and all the early part of the book. The book is more memorable than that might suggest, as Nadine is by far the most interesting character.
One other positive outcome of reading the book for the second time is that I used some of my garden fruit to make a delicious Summer Pudding. It was 5* amazing, but the book was not quite.
November 16, 2019
Wow. This was a truly gripping story: young Nadine, involved with an older man and his business partner. The partners are shady & have plans for her that she has no conception of, being 16 and fairly innocent. The partners buy an old house and evict all the squatters, but the old lady in the attic has a life tenancy. Nadine becomes friendly with Enid.
Any more of the basic plot would be a spoiler, so I'll just say that the book keeps you on the edge of your seat, wondering: will Nadine will become corrupted by the plans the partners have for her, or will she win through? rught through till almost the final page.
Any more of the basic plot would be a spoiler, so I'll just say that the book keeps you on the edge of your seat, wondering: will Nadine will become corrupted by the plans the partners have for her, or will she win through? rught through till almost the final page.
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May 13, 2025i dont know what to rate this book cause I really think that I could have loved this book if I read it at the right time and unfortunately, now was not the right time... i couldn't get into it properly, but I love Nadine and Enid's relationship!!
December 8, 2017
Dark, yes, and with moments of heart-thumping tension so great it makes you skip through prose you know demands attention just because you want to find out what is happening. And then there’s the ending. Without giving anything away, I think I can say that it’s just a tad disappointing. The book as a whole gets five stars though: worth reading for Dunmore’s restrained English poeticism even when nothing much is happening - and there’s plenty happening at all stages of the narrative. But the ending I’m afraid strikes me as though Dunmore simply couldn’t think of anything better: one star, making the whole rating 4! But still worth reading.
September 28, 2011
This is the fourth Helen Dunmore I’ve read and I’m still waiting for one that lives up to the excellent ‘The Siege’. To give this one its due, it has a more dramatic plot than many of her others if you boil it down to its essence, but there is the usual literary padding that separates the main events and makes it much less nail biting than it might have been in the hands of a different author.
Point of view is handled in an unconventional manner – changing from one character to another within a single section. At one point a character seems to hi-jack the narrative, moving from third person to first person without a section break, ‘she’ suddenly becoming ‘I’. That’s the sort of thing that would have an amateur author sent back to school but if you’re Helen Dunmore you can do as you please!
I found so many questions floating around my head as I was reading it. Where was the house situated? (the blurb suggests London, but it seemed not). Was Nadine really 16? Her thought processes and analysis of events felt like those of a much older person. And was the Finnish character only Finnish in order to exercise the author’s undeniable knowledge of that country?
I’m always surprised, but perhaps shouldn’t be, that older characters are often the best in books. So it was with this one. Enid the sitting tenant with experimental tastes and an interesting past, was one of the two major plus points of the book for me. The other was the way I was never sure which direction the story was heading, a fact that kept me reading through the less eventful sections.
Point of view is handled in an unconventional manner – changing from one character to another within a single section. At one point a character seems to hi-jack the narrative, moving from third person to first person without a section break, ‘she’ suddenly becoming ‘I’. That’s the sort of thing that would have an amateur author sent back to school but if you’re Helen Dunmore you can do as you please!
I found so many questions floating around my head as I was reading it. Where was the house situated? (the blurb suggests London, but it seemed not). Was Nadine really 16? Her thought processes and analysis of events felt like those of a much older person. And was the Finnish character only Finnish in order to exercise the author’s undeniable knowledge of that country?
I’m always surprised, but perhaps shouldn’t be, that older characters are often the best in books. So it was with this one. Enid the sitting tenant with experimental tastes and an interesting past, was one of the two major plus points of the book for me. The other was the way I was never sure which direction the story was heading, a fact that kept me reading through the less eventful sections.
January 24, 2016
As much as I thought this was well-written, with an interesting subject, and language which brought up strong impressions of scene and atmosphere.. I was left slightly frustrated in the end.
The story concerns parallel strands - a young woman used by her older 'businessman' of a boyfriend, the lives of said boyfriend and his business associates, and the reminisces of an old woman living in the same house (who strikes up a friendship with the young woman). As beautifully written as it was, I just found the story felt like several well-woven pieces that failed really to satisfactorily join with others, and which were frayed at the ends. Several times the narrative built to a threatening point, but then didn't really resolve with the drama and clarity I'd expected, leaving me feeling slightly short-changed.
Nevertheless, the excellent writing, the (mainly) involving storyline, and the undeniable quality of the author's ability.. I do rate this quite highly and would recommend it.
The story concerns parallel strands - a young woman used by her older 'businessman' of a boyfriend, the lives of said boyfriend and his business associates, and the reminisces of an old woman living in the same house (who strikes up a friendship with the young woman). As beautifully written as it was, I just found the story felt like several well-woven pieces that failed really to satisfactorily join with others, and which were frayed at the ends. Several times the narrative built to a threatening point, but then didn't really resolve with the drama and clarity I'd expected, leaving me feeling slightly short-changed.
Nevertheless, the excellent writing, the (mainly) involving storyline, and the undeniable quality of the author's ability.. I do rate this quite highly and would recommend it.
April 29, 2016
Ugh. I'm really not sure how to go about rating/reviewing Burning Bright. I bought it at The Secret Bookshop based on Helen Dunmore and Helen Dunmore alone, my copy being the Cosmopolitan edition which has absolutely no description of the story whatsoever. Reading it was going in blind and it turned out to be one of those cases in which a book's writing is technically skilful but you just don't like the story. Burning Bright reminded me of An Education (the film - I haven't read the book - yet) in a lot of ways, albeit a seedier tale. Dunmore is a brilliant writer, as ever, but I would never have knowingly chosen to read a book about a sixteen year old girl being groomed for prostitution. It's just too grim for my tastes.
January 4, 2011
I'm so pleased I found Helen Dunmore. Every one of her novels drags me in and holds me tightly throughout. She achieves a great balance of good writing and involving plots, which many authors struggle to achieve.
This one was pleasingly dark, shifting through time to draw gentle parallels between different characters. A tight little cast, all drawn clearly and distinctly.
This one was pleasingly dark, shifting through time to draw gentle parallels between different characters. A tight little cast, all drawn clearly and distinctly.
April 16, 2008
Fascinatingly grody and rooted in the 1990s. Only really liked one character, but Dunmore is a good writer, and it was a decent enough read.
December 14, 2025
I did not expect to enjoy this book as much as I did. Got it with cosmopolitan decades ago and never read it and I picked it up again mistakenly thinking it was written by Helen garner. No matter it is a well written book even though it deals with disturbing matters. 16 year old Nadine is seeing a much older man Kai who together with his business partner Tony have purchased a house. They evict everyone there except for an elderly lady Enid who is protected by law. Enid and Nadine form a friendship which forms the backbone of the book. Enid has an interesting back story - she is gay and was in love with the vivacious Sukey who is brutally killed by a jealous Cato. Enid eventually had a child with a GI but didn’t keep him as they were unmarried. This child is probably Paul Perrett the minister who is in the market for young girls - not to have sex with them but for his weird fetish of being tied up while they have to pleasure themselves in front of him. Paul ends up having Nadine prostituted to him by Tony and Kai but he doesn’t force her to do anything when he realizes she had no idea what she was expected to do. Kai pushes Enid down the stairs in a fit of rage but she doesn’t die even though you all but think she does; Nadine and Kai flee to Finland though Nadine doesn’t realize what he has done. Tony returns and finds
Enid and calls for an ambulance thereby inadvertently saving her. Nadine returns to the UK when she finds out. Kai doesn’t. The book is ambiguous about his ending in Finland. Enid and Nadine move in together. It sounds like Nadine wants a relationship with Paul. The characters are interesting and I am now Intrigued by her other books.
Enid and calls for an ambulance thereby inadvertently saving her. Nadine returns to the UK when she finds out. Kai doesn’t. The book is ambiguous about his ending in Finland. Enid and Nadine move in together. It sounds like Nadine wants a relationship with Paul. The characters are interesting and I am now Intrigued by her other books.
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November 12, 2022
I've long been a fan of Helen Dunmore. The Siege is particularly brilliant but I've relied on her other novels to be readable and interesting. After her recent death I thought I should track down any of her novels I hadn't read and I found this one.
Initially I was surprised at Dunmore's theme of the seamier side of London life. A young girl, Nadine, unknowingly being groomed for prostitution. A politician with unusual sexual tastes. It just didn't seem like Dunmore to me. However, the story gradually drew me in especially when a friendship forms between Nadine and an old woman, Enid, who lives upstairs in the house Nadine is living in with her 'boyfriend' Kai. Enid is a great character.
Dunmore always writes well and this novel weaves different strands together skilfully. I had two problems with the book though. Firstly I could not really believe that Nadine was only 16. Her ideas and expressions were those of a much more mature person. Secondly there were sudden shifts of narrative voice - between characters and also between the first and third person for the same character. This was disconcerting. A worthwhile read but not as good as I hoped.
Initially I was surprised at Dunmore's theme of the seamier side of London life. A young girl, Nadine, unknowingly being groomed for prostitution. A politician with unusual sexual tastes. It just didn't seem like Dunmore to me. However, the story gradually drew me in especially when a friendship forms between Nadine and an old woman, Enid, who lives upstairs in the house Nadine is living in with her 'boyfriend' Kai. Enid is a great character.
Dunmore always writes well and this novel weaves different strands together skilfully. I had two problems with the book though. Firstly I could not really believe that Nadine was only 16. Her ideas and expressions were those of a much more mature person. Secondly there were sudden shifts of narrative voice - between characters and also between the first and third person for the same character. This was disconcerting. A worthwhile read but not as good as I hoped.
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August 21, 2022I selected this from the Women in Fiction VBB on bookcrossing because I had heard good things about this author. I finally read a first book by her this summer (The Siege), and recently pulled this one off the shelf.
I had no idea what to expect of this relatively short novel, but even though I was reading this intermittently with other books, I ended up being quite caught up with it.
The main character is a young girl caught up in what she experiences as a love affair with an older, mysterious man. She eagerly accompanies him to a new life in London, while not really understanding what the new life should entail. She befriends a very elderly woman, the "sitting tenant" in the building the man and his friend/business partner has recently bought... The various relationships are complex a d well described.
A good read.
I had no idea what to expect of this relatively short novel, but even though I was reading this intermittently with other books, I ended up being quite caught up with it.
The main character is a young girl caught up in what she experiences as a love affair with an older, mysterious man. She eagerly accompanies him to a new life in London, while not really understanding what the new life should entail. She befriends a very elderly woman, the "sitting tenant" in the building the man and his friend/business partner has recently bought... The various relationships are complex a d well described.
A good read.
July 4, 2019
I've certainly read this before, but don't remember when. In many ways; the ways those who too vociferously purport to to teach the "rules" of writing, it's a rule breaker, but that is also the joy of it, the reason and the permission to write as one feels necessary, to tell the tale.
Dense and heading off in surprising directions, it does keep the reader eagerly guessing, concern for Nadine ever to the fore.
And does keep me hoping there's a follow up, a "what happened next" novel, but I'm not sure that there is.
Dense and heading off in surprising directions, it does keep the reader eagerly guessing, concern for Nadine ever to the fore.
And does keep me hoping there's a follow up, a "what happened next" novel, but I'm not sure that there is.
February 25, 2021
This is my first book by this author and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I like Helen Dunmore's style, tone, and language. She kept me on tenterhooks. The story touches on the problem of the sex slave trade and the corruption of government officials. Nadine is sixteen years old, a runaway who lives with a man much older than herself. She believes he cares for her but he has much bigger plans for her. The plot is good and unfolds with the necessary tension and climax. There are a lot of internal and external conflicts in the story.
November 28, 2021
It took me until chapter 16 to get really hooked, and then realised I must have read it before. Oddly, though I forgot about it, I must have been more receptive to is qualities this time. There is a real depth to the writing; the background hints about what's happening in the story; the way I suddenly cared about what was going to happen to the characters. Although I've learned not to persevere with books that don't grab me quickly, this one taught me the virtue of re- reading. There is just so much here.
August 29, 2022
This novel almost has a fairy tale feel about it - Dunmore’s characters are real enough but are described in such a way that they somehow feel transient.
Hopes, fears, lies and naivety surround the protagonist and those who abuse her but it is her relationship with an older tenant in the house she stays in which is what drew me into this story and it is Enid who actually became her saviour along with a very surprising Cheri who emerges at the end of the book.
Beautifully written, Dunmore’s strength lies also in her descriptive powers: just exquisite and masterly.
Hopes, fears, lies and naivety surround the protagonist and those who abuse her but it is her relationship with an older tenant in the house she stays in which is what drew me into this story and it is Enid who actually became her saviour along with a very surprising Cheri who emerges at the end of the book.
Beautifully written, Dunmore’s strength lies also in her descriptive powers: just exquisite and masterly.
September 24, 2024
Magic story
As usual Helen Dunmores words are full of images and the people are realistic and beautiful. I loved everything about this book especially the descriptions of the forests and the lake in Finland. Nadine and Enid are whole characters believable and alive. I think Helen meant to suggest that Paul Parrett was Enids lost son. The end comes too quickly I wanted to know more and see them in their new life.
As usual Helen Dunmores words are full of images and the people are realistic and beautiful. I loved everything about this book especially the descriptions of the forests and the lake in Finland. Nadine and Enid are whole characters believable and alive. I think Helen meant to suggest that Paul Parrett was Enids lost son. The end comes too quickly I wanted to know more and see them in their new life.
November 12, 2020
Had little patience with the story. Nadine just didn't fit the character she was supposed to be. I felt like she was 16 going on 40, making observations that I'm pretty sure wouldn't cross a 16yearold's mind. Couldn't quite get myself to like Enid and kept waiting for the murder story of Sukey to be finished properly.
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August 22, 2025
Like Graham Greene almost, it had me enthralled…
Genius ! I couldn’t put the book down, once I d decided to read on…l had almost put it down when i realised its unsavoury nature…but once I d decided to read on it had me enthralled all afternoon, all evening and late into the night.
Am not sure why even, but now I feel I have to read a lot more of her work.
Genius ! I couldn’t put the book down, once I d decided to read on…l had almost put it down when i realised its unsavoury nature…but once I d decided to read on it had me enthralled all afternoon, all evening and late into the night.
Am not sure why even, but now I feel I have to read a lot more of her work.
March 7, 2019
Dunmore writes about the dark side of human nature so beautifully.
May 22, 2019
Thought this was much better than the last I read by this author, tackles a difficult theme, ultimately about love. But leaves a serious consequence to our imagination. Rightly not comfortable.
August 16, 2020
There was tension in the middle of the book, but somehow the end seemed to drift, took 2 attempts to get into it and if I hadn't been so near the end, not sure I would have finished it.
March 20, 2021
Helen is one of my favourite authors. I loved the way she wove Enid's past around Nadine's present. The implied link and how Nadine matured on the page when she already thought she was grown up.
November 21, 2021
A solid intriguing holiday read. Enid is well drawn; there's a pleasant nasty tone. But there are too many flaws to make it brilliant. Enjoy, but don't expect too much.
June 3, 2024
Probably an intersting read, but I found the plot too harrowing to read beyond first few chapters
September 21, 2025
The grammar mistakes in this book almost ruined it for me otherwise an ok read.
October 13, 2024
I’ve read a few of Dunmore’s novels and she never fails to impress.
This novel is dark and intimidating and again, really well written.
She creates a picture of seedy and exploitative characters, preying on the young, vulnerable and impressionable. They are dangerous people who are prepared to do anything to get what they want.
Some parts of the narrative are nail bitingly threatening and the reader can’t fail but to appreciate that such people do exist and sex exploitation is rife within our society.
This novel is dark and intimidating and again, really well written.
She creates a picture of seedy and exploitative characters, preying on the young, vulnerable and impressionable. They are dangerous people who are prepared to do anything to get what they want.
Some parts of the narrative are nail bitingly threatening and the reader can’t fail but to appreciate that such people do exist and sex exploitation is rife within our society.
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