Stirrings

Winner of the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize

''Part poignant memoir of time and place. Part record of the violence, and indifference, against which most girls grow up. The Stirrings is a pleasure and a shock'' Eimear McBride

''A superb, moving and disturbing memoir - haunting and unforgettable'' Jonathan Coe

This is a story about one young woman coming of age, and about the place and time that shaped her: t...