Publication Date: 01/02/2024 ISBN: 9780571374458 Category: Tag:

Brutes

Dizz Tate

Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication Date: 01/02/2024 ISBN: 9780571374458 Category: Tag:
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Falls Landing, Florida. Under scorched bougainvillea, in the shadow of the local theme park, a gang of thirteen-year-old girls obsessively orbit around the local preacher’s daughter, Sammy. She is mesmerising, older – and now missing. And the girls know something they shouldn’t…

This fevered coming-of-age story reads like David Lynch was set loose on The Virgin Suicides: darkly beautiful, unapologetically feral, and genuinely surprising. Perfect for fans of Julia Armfield and Emma Cline, I haven’t stopped thinking about this strange little novel since I read it.  – Liv

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‘Riveting.’ Elle
‘Brilliant.’ Sophie Mackintosh
‘Glittering.’ Marie Claire
‘Enthralling.’ New York Times
‘Manages to bottle up that chaotic and messy feeling of girlhood.’ Stylist

Huddled at a bedroom window, a group of teenagers peer out at their scorched, swampy, fame-hungry town. Taking turns with the binoculars, their gaze sweeps across the highway and the abandoned construction site to the lake. Figures drift across the landscape: mothers, fathers, a preacher’s daughter.

These girls know everything about everyone – perhaps too much.

‘Beautiful and deeply strange. I loved it.’ Mariana Enriquez
‘Assured, insightful, quietly savage.’ Nicole Flattery
‘Brutes feels wonderfully untethered, wild and unpredictable.’ Danya Kukafka

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