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SCABBY QUEEN

Kirstin Innes

  • Original Title: SCABBY QUEEN
  • Publication date: April 2020
  • Publisher: Black and White Publishing
  • Country: GB
  • 400 print pages
  • Drama

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  • Epoch: Contemporary
  • Time Period: 21st century
  • Location setting: United Kingdom
  • Themes: PEOPLE facing life, Life choice, Identity crisis, CHARACTERS, Strong Female Character, FAMILY, Couple, Looking back on one's life, Death, Facing failure, SOCIETY DYSFUNCTIONS, Inequality, Discriminations, Power, SOCIAL CHRONICLES, Social climbing, Commitment

Pitch

Clio’s suicide causes many who knew her to examine their relationships with her. A one-hit wonder and fierce activist, she never gave up campaigning for the change she believed in. The pressures of sexism within politics and the music industry took its toll, however.

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Longlisted for the 2020 Gordon Burn Prize

Reminiscent of ‘Our Friends in the North’, Jackie Kay’s TRUMPET and Rachel Cusk’s THE FLAMETHROWERS.

Kirstin Innes works as a journalist, copywriter and arts PR, as well as an author. She has written for The List, The Scotsman, The Herald, The Independent, and The Pool. With her first novel FISHNET, she was the winner of The Guardian Not The Booker Prize 2015. Praised by Ian Rankin who said: ‘Thoughtful, bruising, poignant and poetic.’

Summary

Three days before her fifty-first birthday, Clio Campbell - a one-hit- wonder, protest singer and activist - kills herself in the spare bedroom of her friend Ruth’s cottage.

Ruth finds the body, and isn’t sure what she’s supposed to do.

Meanwhile, Neil, a journalist who’s been in love with her since they were teenagers protesting together, receives an email with her last wishes: remember me well.

Stretching over four decades from the miners’ strikes to Brexit and beyond; hopping between a tiny Scottish island, a Brixton anarchist squat, Britpop-era Camden, the poll tax riots and Top of the Pops, Scabby Queen is a portrait of a woman who refused to settle down, told by her friends and lovers, enemies and fans, as well as through old interviews in music magazines and on television. As Clio’s suicide makes her a posthumous heroine for the #MeToo age, Neil and Ruth try to piece together what pushed Clio over the edge while other people’s accounts of her undercut everything they thought they understood. Did either of them ever really know her at all?

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