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Quinn Em Strang

Quinn By Em Strang

Quinn by Em Strang

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A piercingly original debut about the limits of forgiveness, from an award-winning Scottish poet

Quinn Summary

Quinn by Em Strang

* A New Statesman Most Anticipated Title for 2023 *

From an award-winning Scottish poet, an unforgettable novel about memory and radical forgiveness

How far would you go to overcome the limits of your own forgiveness?

Quinn is serving a life sentence for a crime he's convinced he hasn't committed. Surely the authorities have got it wrong, and when they find his childhood sweetheart, Andrea, his name will be cleared. His parole is drawing near when he receives an unexpected letter from Andrea's mother, who invites Quinn to share her home.

It soon becomes apparent that what appears to be a genuine act of forgiveness is influenced by more complex motivations. As they navigate the thorny terrain of guilt, justice and mutual need that underpins their relationship, the story of Quinn's past is gradually revealed, setting in motion a final reckoning.

Em Strang's first novel is a hypnotic rendering of an unravelling mind and a visceral story about the very limits of forgiveness.

Quinn Reviews

'A fascinating fever dream of a book... What a novelistic debut from Em Strang.'

-- AL Kennedy, author of We Are Attempting to Survive Our Time

'I read it at a sitting, compelled by this strange and beautiful work... An astonishing feat of imagination.'

-- Gwen Adshead, author of The Devil You Know

'Em Strang's is a true voice, and Quinn is that rarity, an original work of fiction, which excavates trauma and memory and refuses the frameworks placed on it. This book is its own landscape. Strange and powerful.'

-- Paul Kingsnorth, author of The Wake, winner of the Gordon Burn Prize

'Such graceful prose with not a wasted breath; such grounded sharing from the magma of experience.'

-- Alastair McIntosh, author of Soil and Soul

'A beautifully constructed and mesmerizing book that makes you think afresh about the enduring residue of pain both for those who have committed acts of violence and those affected by them. A brave and original attempt to answer our culture of dehumanization with a story that rehumanizes at every level.'

-- Marina Cantacuzino, author of The Forgiveness Project

About Em Strang

Em Strang is a poet and writer from Scotland. She has a PhD from the University of Glasgow, and in 2014 was selected for a Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award. She is the author of several books of poetry including Bird-Woman (2016), which was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Best First Collection Prize and was awarded the Saltire Poetry Book of the Year Award 2017. Quinn is her first novel.

Additional information

GOR012936604
9780861543007
0861543009
Quinn by Em Strang
Em Strang
Used - Like New
Hardback
Oneworld Publications
20230302
208
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