Blood Sugar

by Suzannah Dunn

Five young girls -- talented Deborah, fashion victim Roz, eccentric Lucy, dependable Ali and indecisive Lalie -- on the brink of adulthood. * This is a novel about women's lives, about what happens to those intense, cloying teenage friendships when everyone grows up, gets married, leaves their home town. A razor-sharp rites of passage novel. Set in the 1980s. * Suzannah Dunn at her very best, writing about ordinary life in an extraordinary way. Packed full of humour and insight.

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Suzannah Dunn was born in London, and grew up in the village of Northaw in Hertfordshire (for Tudor ‘fans’: Northaw Manor was the first married home of Bess Hardwick, in the late 1540s). Having lived in Brighton for nineteen years, she now lives in Shropshire. Her novel about Anne Boleyn (The Queen of Subtleties) was followed by The Sixth Wife, on Katherine Parr, and The Queen's Sorrow, set during the reign of Mary Tudor, ‘Bloody Mary’, England’s first ruling queen. Her forthcoming novel – to be published in hardback in May 2010 – is The Confession of Katherine Howard. Prior to writing about the Tudors, she published five contemporary-set novels and two collections of stories. She has enjoyed many years of giving talks and teaching creative writing (from six weeks as ‘writer in residence’ on the Richard and Judy show, to seven years as Programme Director of Manchester University’s MA in Novel Writing).

Reviews

[Jo Joy Holly · Rating 4 out of 5]

I sort of enjoy Susannah Dunn's works, then don't.
She encapsulates time, feelings, expressions, moods & characters that are familiar or similar. Then there is abruptness. Felt the same with Levitation. They end differently to how they go on. I can't put my finger on it.Maybe cold. detached. whereas the rest or the body of the story and their characters is filled with warmth or differences. i will try another. obviously.

[Chris Morton · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was good.

[Aureola · Rating 5 out of 5]

Felt like I was reading a poem the whole way through.