We Pretty Pieces of Flesh

[A] lacerating, exhilarating debut novel… It manages to be both boisterous and bleak, life-enhancing and life-denying, familiar and yet wholly original. It feels essential. You will read nothing else like it this year – Catherine Taylor * Guardian *[A] blistering account of girlhood in deprived 00s Doncaster * Guardian, Books of the Year *Blistering, brilliant, savage and smart. This is a superb debut and Colwill Brown is the real thing – EIMEAR McBRIDE, author of A Girl is a Half-Formed ThingTender and raucous, Shaz, Kel, and Rach’s friendship is brilliantly realized. We Pretty Pieces of Flesh is a novel brimming with rough poetry, heart, and mischief – FERDIA LENNON, author of Glorious ExploitsAn astonishing polyphonic debut * Irish Times *Its gloriously individual voice makes this standout first novel glow with vigor and hope * Wall Street Journal *Dazzling… We don’t know the last book that captured teenage girlhood and female friendship this deftly * Oprah Daily *With this debut, Colwill Brown announces herself as unforgettable… a wondrous, luminous novel – NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH, author of Chain-Gang All-StarsColwill Brown is, simply, brilliant and original on every level… We Pretty Pieces of Flesh is astonishing, as hilarious and wrenching as life itself – ELIZABETH McCRACKEN, author of The Hero of This BookA brilliant portrait of female friendship, nearly the equal in honesty and subtlety to Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels * Kirkus (starred review) *

Colwill Brown was born and raised in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. She holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where she received a James A. Michener Center Fellowship, and an MA in English Literature from Boston College.

Her work has appeared in Granta, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. For fifteen years, she’s lived with ME/CFS, a debilitating neurological disease triggered by a virus that, due to systemic medical neglect, currently has no treatment.

A proud Donny lass, she claims to have played bass guitar in (nearly) every rock venue on South Yorkshire’s toilet circuit.

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