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Penance by Eliza Clark is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Penance about?
One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists 2023 From the author of the cult hit Boy Parts comes a chilling, brilliantly told story of murder among a group of teenage girls—a powerful and disturbing novel as piercing in its portrait of young women as Emma Cline's The Girls.On a beach in a run-down seaside town on the Yorkshire coastline, sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson is set on fire by three other schoolgirls.Nearly a decade after the horrifying murder, journalist Alec Z. Carelli has written the definitive account of the crime, drawn from hours of interviews with witnesses and family members, painstaking historical research, and most notably, correspondence with the killers themselves. The result is a riveting snapshot of lives rocked by tragedy, and a town left in turmoil.But how much of the story is true?Compulsively readable, provocative, and disturbing, Penance is a...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Eliza Clark
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Mystery, Thriller, Thrillers
- Rating
- 3.74 / 5 (28 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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