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Girl in Pieces

Over two million copies sold

Kathleen Glasgow author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oneworld Publications

Published:6th Oct '16

Should be back in stock very soon

Girl in Pieces cover

Brand new novel from bestselling author Kathleen Glasgow, The Glass Girl, is out this October! Pre-order now. 

THIS SPECIAL EDITION includes deleted scenes, a playlist and a personal note from the author. While stocks last. 

Charlie Davis is in pieces. At seventeen, she’s already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget it through cutting; the pain washes out the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. She doesn't have to think about her father or what happened under the bridge. Her best friend, Ellis, who is gone forever. Or the mother who has nothing left to give her. Kicked out of a special treatment center when her insurance runs out, Charlie finds herself in the bright and wild landscape of Tucson, Arizona, where she begins the unthinkable: the long journey of putting herself back together.

Kathleen Glasgow is also the author of How to Make Friends with the Dark and You'd Be Home Now

‘Girl, Interrupted meets Speak.’ Refinery29

‘Glasgow’s poetic writing brings Charlie’s mind to life as she tries to find a path to recovery.’ Independent

'A Girl, Interrupted for a new generation….The story of the mad girl is ultimately a story about being a girl in a mad world, how it breaks us into pieces and how we glue ourselves back together.' Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood


Vivid…a difficult, challenging, but important read.’ The School Librarian


Intimate and gritty…Glasgow mines the darkness and, ultimately, offers the glimmer of recovery’. Irish Times


‘This sharp and beautiful portrait of seventeen-year-old Charlie Davis illuminates not only the anxiety of youth but the vulnerability and terror of life in general... Girl in Pieceshurts my heart in the best way possible.’ Amanda Coplin, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Orchardist


'A treasure of a novel.’ Swati Avasthi, author of Split and Chasing Shadows


'Vivid, devastating and beautifully written.' Julie Schumacher, author of Black Box and NYT bestseller Dear Committee Members

ISBN: 9781780749457

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 29mm

Weight: unknown

448 pages