Not a fanwe were both so shocked it then got shortlisted for the prize cuz I was like this is dreadful ... all I remember is it was bad
First love (2017)
Others: Negative Rendered in dazzling prose, First Love is an account of the relationship between two catastrophically ill-suited people walking a precarious line between relative calm and explosive confrontation.
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- 166 pages
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