Luath Press Rights Catalogue 2024

18 Luath Press Limited Fiction
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Fade Into You
CATRIONA CHILD
9781804250150
March 2023
Paperback
198x129mm
288pp
£10.99
FBA Modern and
contemporary fiction
Scotland's
answer
to Normal
People
Set against a backdrop of T in the Park, this
bittersweet tale will delight music fans.
SCOTS MAGAZINE
They flickered in and out of sight, between the
passing cars, as if a strobe light was on them.
She watched them from the corner of her eye,
as they appeared and disappeared, like ghosts.
Childhood friendships are simple things, and
when ‘90s grunge girl Alex meets the twins next door her bond with Gavin and Banny
seems meant to be, held together by their shared language of music.
Yet as they grow and change, so too must their relationships with each other, and the
easy joys of outdoor swimming and Aunt Ruby’s tablet are slowly overshadowed by
all the things that never were and those that never should have been.
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A snapshot of the nineties/noughties spirit and a poignant exploration of how
childhood friendships and first loves echo through the years, Fade Into You presents a
tale of mixtapes, the millennium and the impossibility of moving on.
As shocking as it may be for some of us, the 1990s are now part of history.
Catriona Child’s ‘Fade Into You’ embraces this and promises to evoke heady
nostalgia in those who were there, and offer a step back in time for others.
ALISTAIR BRAIDWOOD ‘Ten Books for 2023’, SNACK MAGAZINE
CATRIONA CHILD was born in Dundee. She won the Sunday Herald Blog
competition in 2007, was shortlisted for the National Library of Scotland/
The Scotsman Crime short story competition in 2008, and has been
published in the Scottish Book Trust Family Legends anthology and in
Northwords Now. Her first novel, Trackman 2012, was described by The
Herald as having ‘all the makings of a cult hit’. She lives near Edinburgh
with her husband Allan and daughter Corrie.
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