Denise Forrester is a feisty, troublesome, spirited girl with her childhood eating disorder (only white things basically) and her teenage crushes. She is abandoned by her mother and tormented by her sister, hopeless at school but despite all that original and memorable and identifiable. She's the archetypal strange child, growing up in Glasgow tenements in the 80s with her indulgent and eccentric grandmother, while her policeman father and strategically ill mother battle it out at home. In to the story of Denise is woven other stories, fictions spun by her grandmother about witches and fallen women, stories of the streets that Denise and her grandmother stalk, together, murder and daily violence forming a disconcerting background to shopping and school.
- ISBN10 0753819015
- ISBN13 9780753819012
- Publish Date 2 March 2006 (first published 12 May 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 272
- Language English