We Go Around in the Night and are Consumed by Fire - Softcover

Jules Grant

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908434864 ISBN 13: 9781908434869

Publisher: Myriad Editions, 2016

Synopsis

This game-changing literary revenge thriller, voiced by lesbian gangster Donna and her precocious god-daughter Aurora, is steeped in the violence and politics of Manchester's criminal underworld.

Best friends since they met as children in care, Donna and Carla run the allfemale Bronte Close Gang, carving out their own empire in the toughest streets of Manchester. Unlike the hot-headed men who make up most of the city's gangs, frequently caught up in violent turf warfare, the women keep their heads down running their business their way: partying on Canal Street, selling drugs in perfume atomisers in club toilets, and working as cleaners to account for their illegal income.

But when Carla is gunned down for seducing the wife of a local gangster, it is left to Donna to keep her ten-year-old daughter, Aurora, out of sight and out of the care system, galvanise the gang and mastermind a killer plan to achieve retribution - all the while reeling at the loss of her soulmate.

An epic of friendship, survival and finding out how far you'd go to avenge and protect those you love, We Go Around In The Night And Are Consumed By Fire is a thrillingly original crime novel that unfolds at breakneck speed - at once furious, tender and heartbreaking.

The title is inspired by graffiti on the Hulme overpass in Manchester, and is a translation of the famous Latin palindrome 'in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni'.

About this title

About the Author

Jules Grant is from Manchester. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck College, University of London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Myriad Editions
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908434864
• ISBN 13: 9781908434869
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352