Natasha [Redacted] — Andrew Dutton
ISBN: 9781788649704
£10.99
Out 20th October, pre-order now for your early copy
Welcome-welcome-welcome-welcome to Being Young! And to the inner life and internet ragepage of Natasha {Redacted]. Her first name is all you’re getting: there are too many haters, trolls and stupid adults out there.Iffen you understand me then you’ve picked up the rhythm of my heartbeat and maybe you’re a friend. But that means you’re a potential danger too, if you get too close and you know too much – be careful.
Original, compelling and moving, Natasha [Redacted] is a coming of age story that charts the costs of trying to survive in the poisonous jungle that is ‘growing up’. Family breakdown, friends who turn out to be anything but friends, parents and their love interests who want bland conformity above all else, Internet wars and real-world violence populate Natasha’s Internet ‘ragepage’. And we see Natasha too though her self-appraising ‘sleevenotes’, penned some unknown time after the events that she describes.
At the end of it all, has she grown up?
Will you like the answer anymore than Natasha does?
Whatever the answer—if you’ve ever loved music with a matchless passion, wanted to form a band and play a gig on the Moon, you could be the friend that Natasha is waiting for.
Read on…
Author biography
Andrew Dutton has been writing since the early 2000s and has previously self-published an e-book of short stories, A Mirror. His work frequently explores life at ‘the bottom of the pile’, reflecting a long career helping people in financial hardship and debt. Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, he now lives in Derbyshire and draws inspiration and comfort from books, music, cats — and long country walks with his partner and their beloved Labrador.
Andrew’s debut novel, Nocturne: Wayman’s Sky, as well as subsequent novels, The Crossword Solver, and The Beauty of Chell Street and My Life in Receipts are all published by Cinnamon Press.