Nancy Tucker
Hutchinson, £12.99, pp400
Nancy Tucker’s debut novel opens as eight-year-old Chrissie kills another child. “Sweat made it slippy between our skins but I didn’t let go, pressed and pressed until my nails were white.” It’s the first day of spring and Chrissie, a neglected child who is always living on the edge of starvation, realises “that was all it took for me to feel like I had all the power in the world. One morning, one moment, one yellow-haired boy.” Tucker, who has previously written about her childhood struggle with anorexia, follows Chrissie’s story as she gloats over her secret while a clock ticks inside her, waiting for her
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