Peach Pig: The debut collection from the Young People’s Laureate for London, Forward Prize-shortlisted author

By: Cecilia Knapp

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Synopsis: 'Cecilia Knapp is a great writer. I love her' KAE TEMPESTIn her devastatingly powerful debut collection, Cecilia Knapp examines the experience of motherlessness and its lasting impact, as well as the lessons passed between generations of women.These poems explore women's complicated relationship with their bodies, with sex, and with shame as she traverses the violence of romantic love, but also employs humour and mischief, a wry reclaiming of power.We hear stories of a challenging childhood in a seaside town, a girl growing up, getting out and reckoning with the guilt of being 'one of these people now.'The collection also offers a look at Knapp's close relationship with her older brother, his struggles with addiction and, eventually, his death. With tenderness, she remembers him and unpacks the unique grief that comes after a suicide.Peach Pig is a candid and unflinching look at loss, an attempt to find a language for it. It grapples with feelings of anxiety, insecurity and displaced anger; but it is also a collection full of dreams, hope and vibrant persistence, a willingness to question and to carry on.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781472156808
Related ISBNs:: 9781472156815
Publisher:: Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Date of Addition:: 10/05/22
Copyrighted By:: Cecilia Knapp
Adult content:: Yes
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Teens, Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family
Reading Age:: 12 and up
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.