The Heritage

Author:

Will Ashon

Publisher:

Faber Faber

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Publisher

Faber Faber

Publication Year 2008
ISBN-13

9780571231041

ISBN-10 0571231047
Binding

Paperback

Number of Pages 352 Pages
Language (English)
Dimensions (Cms) 21.5 X 13.2 X 2.7
Weight (grms) 381
When fifteen-year-old Tilly is wrongly sent to a Young Offenders Institute - a far cry from her safe, suburban upbringing - she's desperately bored and unhappy until she meets Sadie. Now released and living in Sadie's bedsit, the pair soon throw themselves into a contented life of petty criminality. But when sinister landlady and social worker Lynda comes to take DNA swabs - purportedly for a scientific investigation into the genetic roots of criminal behavior - their teenage idyll is shattered. For a joke, Tilly swaps the two girls' samples, setting into motion a gripping story of mistaken identity and corporate malice. With its depiction of shoplifting techniques, shadowy revolutionaries, alcopops, sperm banks, genetics, adolescense and a lot of smoking, "The Heritage" is both funny and sad, grittily real yet exuberantly imagined, utterly strange and yet strangely moving.

Will Ashon

Will Ashon runs the record company Big Dadda Recordings. Clear Water was his first novel.
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