Only Here, Only Now

'Only Here, Only Now heralds the arrival of an urgent and unique new voice, as engaging and as startling as Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Morvern Callar or The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, and will surely be hailed as one of the great British debut novels' DAVID PEACE

It is the blazing hot summer of 1994, the second day of the school holidays, and Cora Mowat is down where the swing-park used to be with nothing to do. She feels stuck in her small town, trapped inside her own restless mind and unsure of what the future holds - if it holds anything at all for a girl like her. But life is about to change with the arrival of a stranger and a tragedy that upends everything Cora thought she knew about who she is and what she might be capable of.