Summary
What if your own husband was accused of sexual misconduct?
‘You will be left wondering just who George is, and indeed, who you are.’ - Irish News
For readers who were gripped by Megan Abbott’s The Fever and Louise O’Neill’s Asking For It.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
THE BEST KIND OF PEOPLE is a page-turning Canadian bestseller about a family on the brink of collapse. It gives …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473658103 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473658101 |
| Author: | Zoe Whittall |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 26 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 32mm |
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Critics Review
Whittall places the reader right at the centre of their pain. It’s the best depiction of female suffering I’ve read since Jane Smiley eloquently tackled sexual abuse in A Thousand Acres. - Toronto Star
The Best Kind of People is the best kind of book ? it’s got a compelling story characters readers will recognize and come to love and writing that makes it effortless to turn page after page. - Vancouver SunAn astounding portrait of a character by omission. - National PostThe jury found Zoe Whittall’s The Best Kind of People urgent and timely, nuanced and brave. This gripping story challenges how we hear women and girls, and dissects the self-hypnosis and fear that prevent us from speaking disruptive truth. - 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize JuryAbout The Author
Zoe Whittall
Zoe Whittall is the author of The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life (2001), The Emily Valentine Poems (2006), and Precordial Thump (2008), and the editor of Geeks, Misfits, & Outlaws (2003). Her debut novel Bottle Rocket Hearts (2007) made the Globe and Mail Top 100 Books of the Year and CBC Canada Reads’ Top Ten Essential Novels of the Decade. Her second novel Holding Still for as Long as Possible (2009) won a Lambda Literary Award and was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her writing has appeared in the Walrus, the Believer, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, Fashion, and more. She has also worked as a writer and story editor on the TV shows Degrassi and Schitt’s Creek. Born in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, she has an MFA from the University of Guelph and lives in Toronto.
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