Gracie | On June 19, 2018

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July 1969. While men are walking on the moon, life in London for sixteen-year-old Jane takes unexpected turns. On the point of falling in love with her best friend Karl, she discovers that there’s more to her father’s spectacular girlfriend than at first meets the eye. In the sweltering heat of a fast-moving evening, other revelations quickly follow, reconciling Jane with her father but also reopening wounds from the past, laying bare raw emotions kept suppressed for too long. And as the evening draws to a close, the night’s drama has only just begun, unfolding in a sequence of violent events that threaten to have lasting repercussions for Jane and the people she loves…

Lightened by a touch of dark humor, with magic tricks, sexuality and family secrets all playing a prominent part, The Madness of Grief is a coming-of-age tale of friendship, betrayal and loss.

“A well-written, richly complicated, and deeply engaging coming-of-age tale.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review) – Kirkus Reviews’ “INDIE BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH” (June 2018)

Genre: Coming of Age, Literary Fiction

The Madness of Grief by Panayotis Cacoyannis

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