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Bad Attitudes

Autor Agnes Owens
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 noi 2026
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Two brilliant novellas by Scottish writer Agnes Owens

'A mini-masterpiece - a delicious, wicked, beautifully observed little black comedy' INDEPENDENT
'Agnes Owens is part of a Golden Age in Scottish literature' GUARDIAN

Bad Attitudes
is a wickedly dark tale of Scottish council housing and murder. This first of two novellas also boasts a missing person, a lethally nosy neighbour, an extra-marital affair, a lusty councillor and a new housing law for tinkers. Who but Agnes Owens could concoct such a delicious brew of dour hilarity and then follow it with an unforgettable party?

In Jen's Party, soon-to-be fifteen-year-old Jen immediately regrets agreeing to her crazy Aunt Belle's plan for a birthday party which involves, among other notions, flirting with the town's entire male population. With a perfectly tuned ear for the droll and the deadly, Owens can spin a tale of domestic mayhem that is at once disarmingly tense and movingly human.
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ISBN-13: 9781846977022
ISBN-10: 1846977029
Pagini: 172
Ediția:Centenary edition
Editura: BIRLINN

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'A mini-masterpiece - a delicious, wicked, beautifully observed little black comedy about council house residents that also manages to be a murder mystery and a memorable tale'
'An everyday tale of tinkers, teenage runaways, sexually incontinent councillors and lonely old women written in a sinewy, dialogue-driven style'
'Agnes Owens has an appealingly wicked eye for familial love on the dole ... reminiscent of Muriel Spark and Shena Mackay'
'Agnes Owens is part of a Golden Age in Scottish literature'