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A remarkable debut -- a novel of quiet and real power. “Offcomer” is Lancashire dialect for an outsider. Claire, the daughter of a Jewish mother and a Gentile father, is a young woman with low self-esteem, no sense of who she is, and little in the way of feeling beyond her recourse to mutilating herself by “cutting”.
A remarkable debut -- a novel of quiet and real power. “Offcomer” is Lancashire dialect for an outsider. Claire, the daughter of a Jewish mother and a Gentile father, is a young woman with low self-esteem, no sense of who she is, and little in the way of feeling beyond her recourse to mutilating herself by “cutting”.
Jo Baker
Jo Baker was born in Lancashire. She was educated at Oxford and at Queen's University, Belfast, where she completed a PhD on the work of the Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen. Her first novel,...
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