Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers, The

Lonely, young and sharply observant, Eleanor arrives in Brighton looking for work, friendship and somewhere to live. But not for love. Not for sex. She’s tried that – brutally. She thinks she’s over the worst when she meets Scott, whose rages make him hurl everything at the wall, out of the car – everything including Eleanor who suddenly turns rebellious. A deceptively understated first person narrative that gets under the skin of a medley of strange lives. The new book by Emily Critchley, whose Notes On My Family was nominated for the Carnegie and longlisted for the Branford Boase.