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Scottish BookThe Panopticon (Paperback)
Author: Dr Jenni Fagan
£9.95
ScotlandPsychological SuspenseUrban Gritty
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan follows fifteen-year-old Anais Hendricks as she is sent to a care home for young offenders with no memory of how she got there and blood on her uniform. Sharp, raw, and vividly told, this novel explores survival and trauma through Anais’s fierce voice. This book is for readers of gritty literary fiction and powerful coming-of-age stories.
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Why we chose this book
The Panopticon is a blistering debut we admired for its fearless voice, emotional force, and refusal to soften the realities of care, control, and survival.
Our summary description
As Independent Scottish booksellers, we write all of our descriptions personally, we hope you enjoy this one.
Fifteen year old Anais Hendricks is sharp, funny and fiercely self possessed. She is also a child who has learned early how often adults fail to protect those in their care.
In the back of a police car, she is taken towards the Panopticon, a residential home for persistent young offenders, a place shaped by distrust on both sides of its locked doors. Anais does not understand how she has ended up there. Large stretches of the recent past have vanished, and she cannot explain the blood staining her school uniform.
As she tries to piece together what has been lost, Anais must navigate a system that expects the worst of her, and people who are trained not to believe. This is literary crime fiction attentive to voice and power, exploring memory, blame and the cost of being unheard.
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