Phoenix
Publisher: Atlas Contact
A criminal family full of secrets
Overwhelming debut novel about female strength and letting go of what is toxic
Eva grows up under the terror of her father, who is often (but not always) in prison. In Eva’s family, everyone leads a double life to keep him out of trouble. At the age of twelve, she travels by plane, alone with a bag full of cash, to her grandparents in Spain to do a job for her father: she has to buy a horse.
As Eva grows up, she is no longer content with the constant fear in which she lives. Can she break away from her family—her flamboyant grandmother, who runs a coffee shop in Amsterdam, her unstable mother—and at what cost?
Praise:
‘Very beautiful—a raw and intense story about growing up.’ – Manik Sarkar, author of Ox’ Head
