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Ladner, Kiare.
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Female friendship -- Fiction.
Night work -- England -- London -- Fiction.
Coming of age -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
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Ladner, Kiare.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Night work -- England -- London -- Fiction.
Coming of age -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
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Nightshift : a novel / Kiare Ladner.
by
Ladner, Kiare.
Mariner Books, 2021.
Call #:
FICTION
LAD
Subjects
Female friendship --
Fiction
.
Night work -- England -- London --
Fiction
.
Coming of age --
Fiction
.
London (England) --
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780063138247 (hc)
9780063138254 (trade pbk)
Alternate title:
Night shift
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
243 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2021 by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan.
Summary:
"A haunting, compelling debut novel of complex female friendship and obsession, following one young woman's decision to abandon her normal life and join the otherworldly, nocturnal existence of London's nightshift workers. When twenty-three-year-old Meggie meets her distant and enigmatic new coworker Sabine, she recognizes in her the person she would like to be. Meggie is immediately drawn to worldly, beautiful, and uninhibited Sabine; and when Sabine announces she's switching to the nightshift, Meggie impulsively decides to follow her. Giving up her daytime existence, her reliable boyfriend, and the trappings of a normal life, Meggie finds a liberating sense of freedom as she indulges her growing preoccupation with Sabine and plunges into another existence, immersing herself in the transient and uncertain world of the nightshift worker. While the city sleeps, she passes the hours at work clipping crime stories from the next day's newspapers. The liminal hours between night and day are spent haunting deserted bars and nightclubs with her eclectic coworkers and going on increasingly wild adventures with Sabine. Yet the closer she gets to Sabine, the more Sabine seems to push her away, leaving Meggie desperately trying to hold on to their intense friendship while doubting if she truly knows her friend at all. A fresh twist on the coming of age story and a dark love letter to city life, Nightshift explores the thin line between self-invention and self-destruction, as Meggie's sleep deprivation, drinking, and fixation with Sabine gain a momentum all their own. Vividly set in late-nineties London and framed by Meggie's present-day reflections, Nightshift is a captivating and moving debut that asks profound questions about who we are and if we can truly escape ourselves."--Publisher.
Genre:
Suspense
fiction
.
Literary
fiction
.
First novel.
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