Book description
One day in June 1931 the body of a young girl was found on a lonely
beach in Long Island, New York. She was bruised and there were some
signs that she had been raped. It was thought that she had been
murdered. She was soon identified as Starr Faithfull, a nicely brought
up girl from a good family, but the picture soon began to change. Starr
was not what she seemed: she was sexually promiscuous, mentally unstable
and, crucially, had been abused as a child by her guardian, a prominent
Boston politician. A tabloid sensation in the 1930s, the story of Starr
Faithfull is the basis of William Palmer's extraordinary new novel.
William Palmer is the author of five novels, The Good Republic,
Leporello, The Contract, The Pardon of Saint Anne and The
India House, and a collection of short stories, Four Last
Things. He was awarded a Travelling Scholarship by the Society
of Authors in 1997. A book of poems, The Island Rescue, won the
Collection Prize at the Listowel Writers' Week festival in Ireland in
2006. He reviews regularly for the Independent and other
journals. He lives in south-west London.
http://www. williampalmer. info/
