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Late at night in an Ohio shopping mall, a teenage girl is discovered speechless and traumatized, tattooed all over with black fish scales. She is adopted by Lucy, an ex-side-show fat lady. Lucy must now face the seedy world she escaped, and something or someone seems to want the girl back.
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Nobody heard her scream...
Nobody heard her scream...
Late at night in an empty Ohio shopping mall, a teenage girl is discovered by a security guard. Speechless and traumatised, she has also been tattooed all over her body with tiny black fish scales. The authorities name the girl Emma and allow Lucy Thurman to adopt her.
An ex-fat-lady in a circus side-show, Lucy has spent most of her adult life feeling a 'freak'. But, as she works to understand exactly what has happened to her new daughter, she is forced to face her own demons and return to the seedy side-shows it once took all her power to escape from. And there are also dangers closer to hand, for it seems that whoever - or whatever - it is that Emma has escaped from, wants her back...
‘you won't be able to turn the pages fast enough...’ Washington Post
‘In direct prose, both unflinching and lyrical, Stevens explores many of the themes that made [his] first book so compelling: the ideas of human cruelty, salvation, and insanity's grip on the collective unconscious are set against a circus backdrop - and the result is a twisted coming-of-age story filled with the surreal horror of David Lynch’ Booklist
Brooke Stevens worked as a tiger groom with the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey and the circus background in this book is lavishly and accurately detailed.
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- PublisherPiatkus
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0749932643
- ISBN 13 9780749932640
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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