'Needlework'
| By: | Deirdre Sullivan |
| Publisher: | Little Island |
| Published: | February 2016 |
| Pages: | 224 |
| Categories: | Children |
| Language: | English |
| Available as: | Ebook |
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'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. A powerful and poetic novel from the multi-award-winning author of Tangleweed and Brine 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. `Reading Needlework is similar to getting your first tattoo - it's searing, often painful, but it is an experience you'll never forget.' - Louise O'Neill, author of The Surface Breaks and Asking For It `Needlework is a powerful novel that deserves to be read.' - Sarah Crossan, author of One and We Come Apart `I loved Deirdre Sullivan's Needlework, a novel that is just as sharp and precise as its title suggests.' - Doireann Ni Ghriofa, poet `A modern, broken fairy tale that gets under your skin.' - Tara Flynn, author and comedian Material handled with all the delicacy of touch we would expect from the most talented of tattooists. -- Robert Dunbar * The Irish Times * Beautiful and poetic. -- Catherine Doyle * The Irish Times * A brave, necessary book that burned into my heart. -- Sarah Webb * The Irish Times * So beautiful that you won't want to put it down, even as your heart is breaking for Ces. -- Kim Hood * The Irish Times * My number one most adored for this year has to be Deirdre Sullivan's Needlework. -- Jacq Murphy * The Irish Times * This is a powerful novel that haunts you long after you have read the final page. -- Caroline Busher * The Irish Times * The details of the skill, knowledge and painstaking preparation required are as alluring as the descriptions of delicate, powerful and enduring images, while the idea of blemishing the skin in order to create beauty
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