The Nearly Girl [electronic resource]
de Nikolits, Lisa2018
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Fans of A Prayer for Owen Meany and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest will love this clever, fast-paced and enjoyable thriller. Like a modern-day Joan of Arc, Amelia Fisher attempts to carve out a 'normal life', showing us how mythic the idea of 'normal' really is. With a poetic genius for a father, an obsessed body builder for a mother, and an enchantingly eccentric group seeking the help of an unorthodox therapist, what could possibly go wrong? A chance discovery propels Amelia and fellow therapy attendee, Mike, with whom she is in love, into a life-threatening situation instigated by the crazed doctor's own dark secret but Amelia's psychosis saves the day. Told with warmth, humor and populated with vividly original characters, this sprint-paced novel has it all, from restraining orders to sex in office bathrooms, and a nail-biting ending. A novel about an unusual family, expected social norms and the twists and turns of getting it all slightly wrong, the consequences of which prove fatal for some.
Main title:
The Nearly Girl [electronic resource] / Lisa de Nikolits
Author:
de Nikolits, Lisa, AuthorGarcia, Sara, Narrator
Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Inanna Publications, 2018
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Originally from South Africa, Lisa de Nikolits has lived in Canada since 2000. The Nearly Girl is her sixth novel. Previous novels include: The Hungry Mirror (2011 IPPY Awards Gold Medal Winner); West of Wawa (2012 IPPY Silver Medal Winner and a Chatelaine Editor's Pick); A Glittering Chaos (2014 IPPY Silver Medal Winner); The Witchdoctor's Bones; and most recently, Between The Cracks She Fell (2016 IPPY Bronze Medal Winner and a Canadian Living magazine "must-read book of 2015"). Her short fiction and poetry has also been published in various anthologies and journals. She lives and writes in Toronto.
ISBN:
9781771334709
Language:
English
BRN:
3917124
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