Only Here, Only Now

by Tom Newlands

ISBN: 9781399607896

Published: 2024-06-13

'This isn't just a great first novel; it's a great novel. And Cora, the mad, chaotic, wise, funny narrator, is one of the great characters' RODDY DOYLE 'It's not every day you read a modern classic. But this feels destined to become one. A thunderous achievement' NATHAN FILER, author of The Shock of the Fall 'Only Here, Only Now heralds the arrival of an urgent and unique new voice' DAVID PEACE 'A funny, truthful, heartbreaking yet hopeful read' JENNIE GODFREY, author of The List of Suspicious Things Fife, in the blazing hot summer of 1994. Cora Mowat's mates don't understand her, but then Cora Mowat doesn't understand herself. She's stuck on a seaside council estate full of dafties, old folk and seagulls, with a thousand dreams and a restless brain that won't behave. She's dying to escape but unsure of what the future holds - if it holds anything at all for a girl like her. When her Mam's new boyfriend moves in, tensions rise in their tiny house. Gunner means well, but he's dodgy...