A Kind of Intimacy: Jenn Ashworth

Tracing the dark possibilities of best intentions gone awry, A Kind of Intimacy is a darkly comic novel about a dysfunctional young woman s life in the suburbs.

Annie is morbidly obese, lonely and hopeful. She narrates her own increasingly bizarre attempts to ingratiate herself with her new neighbours, learn from past mistakes and achieve a "certain kind of intimacy" with the boy next door. Though Annie struggles to repress a murky history of violence, secrets and sexual mishaps her past is never too far behind her, finally shattering her denial in a compelling and bloody climax. A quirky and darkly comic debut.