Heatstroke (Paperback)
Hazel Barkworth (author)- Coming soon
'Barkworth is excruciatingly good... An impressive first book' OBSERVER
'A sultry, stifling debut exploring power, consent and womanhood' COSMOPOLITAN
'Gripping and intensely atmospheric... you won't want to put this down' HEAT magazine's READ OF THE WEEK
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Do you remember the summer that changed everything?
Rachel and her daughter have never had secrets. Until now.
Lily is somewhere she shouldn't be. With someone she shouldn't be with.
Mia misses her best friend. But she let her down.
In the middle of a stifling heatwave, the three of them stand on the edge of irrevocable change. By the end, one burning question will remain... how could she let things go this far?
A provocative debut novel for fans of Zoe Heller, Emma Cline, Expectation and My Dark Vanessa.
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'I wanted to stay within its pages forever' CLARE MACKINTOSH
'Stylish and sensual' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE
'A thrilling look at mothers and daughters, adolescence, sex, suburbia and secrets' NELL FRIZZELL
'I am addicted... dark and twisty with beautiful, poetic writing' EMMA GANNON
'Sexy and provocative' LAURA JANE WILLIAMS
'Pulls you into its sweaty interior and keeps you gripped' RENEE KNIGHT
'I couldn't tear myself away' ERIN KELLY
'Compulsive, sticky and full of gorgeous writing' KIRSTIN INNES
'Read next if you loved Three Women by Lisa Taddeo' WHISTLES newsletter
'A summer sizzler... with twists, turns and revelations in all the right places' EVENING STANDARD
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781472265623
Number of pages: 320
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
A sultry, stifling debut * Cosmopolitan *
Gripping and intensely atmospheric... beautifully explores the complicated relationship between mothers and teenage daughters... you won't want to put this down * Heat *
An atmospheric read that will draw you into its tangled web * Woman & Home *
Dark and unsettling * Red *
Painfully real, and so beautifully written I wanted to stay within its pages forever. Heatstroke is unsettling, challenging and utterly immersive -- Clare Mackintosh
Stylish and sensual -- Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Tense, sultry, unsettling, sweaty and evocative . . . A thrilling look at mothers and daughters, adolescence, sex, suburbia and secrets -- Nell Frizzell
Pulls you into its sweaty interior and keeps you gripped to the end. Darkly atmospheric and so well written -- Renee Knight
Sexy, sensual, difficult, provocative - I was hooked for every twist, turn and revelation. This is definitely one of the best reads of the summer. I was blown away -- Laura Jane Williams
I am addicted!... A gripping, dark and twisty read with beautiful, poetic writing -- Emma Gannon
I gulped this whole thing down in one sitting. It's compulsive, sticky and full of gorgeous writing -- Kirstin Innes
Raw, unsparing and almost unbearably tender. Perfect sentences swim gracefully across every page, overlaying a narrative that delights in wrong-footing the readers' assumptions. I couldn't tear myself away -- Erin Kelly
A scorching tale of obsession, betrayal and the wounds that mothers and daughters inflict on each other in the name of love -- Tammy Cohen
Fevered and claustrophobic -- Jane Healey, author of The Animals at Lockwood Manor
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