{"product_id":"peach-pig-9781472156815","title":"Peach Pig","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e''\u003cb\u003eCecilia Knapp is a great writer. I love her'' KAE TEMPEST\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe 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.''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeach Pig \u003c\/i\u003eis a candid and unflinching look at loss, an attempt to find a language for it. I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCecilia Knapp is a great writer. I love her -- KAE TEMPEST\u003cbr\u003eCecilia Knapp is a rare, rare talent. The sort of writer you get excited to have found and then look forward to devouring more of their work -- KERRY HUDSON\u003cbr\u003eLove this book - the stunning first collection by Cecilia Knapp. So much to recognise and feel about girlhood, loss, shame, love - expressed with bags of elegance, generosity \u0026amp; power -- Amy Acre\u003cbr\u003eThe debut collection by a former young people's laureate for London is arrestingly frank in its exposure of everyday worries and profound melancholy . . . Knapp writes with a light touch even when her heart is heaviest: her mother died when she was seven and her alcoholic brother also died too young. The collection comes into its own in loving and painful poems about him . . . this tormented collection has a saving grace -- Kate Kellaway * Observer ‘Poetry book of the month’ *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739406709079,"sku":"9781472156815","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781472156815.jpg?v=1720052154","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/peach-pig-9781472156815","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}