Precocious
  • Published: 30 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9781785030307
  • Imprint: Ebury Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $26.00

Precocious

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A compelling, clever and controversial debut which will appeal to fans of THE GIRL ON A TRAIN, APPLE TREE YARD, GONE GIRL and NOTES ON A SCANDAL.

'Can there be a more unreliable narrator than a teenage girl?'

Fiona Palmer is (un)happily married when a chance meeting with her former teacher plunges her headlong into an affair.

Intercut with the realities of their adult relationship, Fiona remembers first meeting the enigmatic Henry Morgan as a precocious and lonely fourteen-year-old. Her schoolgirl crush developed into an intense relationship, but it was always one which she controlled.

Or did she?
A controversial, compelling debut novel from an award-winning writer which will appeal to fans of The Girl on a Train.
  • Published: 30 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9781785030307
  • Imprint: Ebury Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Joanna Barnard

Joanna Barnard works as a counsellor. In 2014, she won the inaugural Bath Novel Award. A Northerner currently exiled in the South of England, Joanna misses flat vowels, friendly bus drivers and chips and gravy.

She is the author of Precocious and Hush Little Baby.

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Praise for Precocious

What a fabulous debut!... a writer of great talent, she tackles a difficult and complex subject with such sensitivity and skill

Louise Douglas

Unsettling and compelling…

Fanny Blake, Woman And Home

a memorable, powerful and fascinating read. Joanna Barnard has skilfully, subtly and with great compassion written a gripping and provocative tale that deserves to be read

Liz Robinson, LoveReading