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By: Deirdre Sullivan
Publisher: Little Island Books
Published: February 2016
Pages: 224
Categories: Fiction
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
On sale at: littleisland.ie
ISBN-13: 9781910411506
ASIN: 1910411507

‘I would like to make things beautiful, but a tawdry and repulsive kind of beauty. A braver sort than people have from birth. Sexy zombies on a bicep. That sort of thing.’ Ces longs to be a tattoo artist and embroider skin with beautiful images. But for now she’s just trying to reach adulthood without falling apart. Powerful, poetic and disturbing, Needlework is a girl’s meditation on her efforts to maintain her bodily and spiritual integrity in the face of abuse, violation and neglect.

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