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    Fight Night (toews) Pb

    £8.99
    Grandma's health is failing, the baby is on the way, as a family of three extraordinary women prepare to face life's great changes together. Poignant, hilarious and deeply moving, Fight Night is a girl's love letter to the women raising her and a tribute to one family's fighting spirit.
    ISBN: 9780571370733
    AuthorToews, Miriam
    PublisherNameFaber & Faber
    Pub Date01/06/2023
    BindingPaperback
    Pages272
    Availability: In Stock

    FROM THE WRITER OF THE OSCAR-WININNG WOMEN TALKING
    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR
    LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD

    'Go Grandma Elvira!' Margaret Atwood
    'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' The New Yorker
    'Glorious.' Sarah Moss
    ____________
    You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight.

    Swiv has taken this advice too literally. Now she's suspended from school, in the care of her foul-mouthed, hilarious grandmother.

    Mom is busy being pregnant, so Grandma gives Swiv a very different education. Swiv learns maths with Amish jigsaws and How to Dig a Winter Grave. Grandma's methods may be unorthodox, but she has faced the worst of life with a wild, independent spirit and this is what she hopes to pass on.

    Time is running short. Grandma's health is failing and the baby is on the way - can Grandma inspire this fire in Swiv, and ensure it never goes out?

    Poignant, hilarious and deeply moving, Fight Night is a girl's love letter to the women raising her and a tribute to one family's fighting spirit.

    'A love letter to our brave and brilliant matriarchs.' Glamour
    'Miriam Toews is a genius.' R. O. Kwon
    'As compelling and hilarious and indecently sad as life can be.' Financial Times

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    FROM THE WRITER OF THE OSCAR-WININNG WOMEN TALKING
    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR
    LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD

    'Go Grandma Elvira!' Margaret Atwood
    'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' The New Yorker
    'Glorious.' Sarah Moss
    ____________
    You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight.

    Swiv has taken this advice too literally. Now she's suspended from school, in the care of her foul-mouthed, hilarious grandmother.

    Mom is busy being pregnant, so Grandma gives Swiv a very different education. Swiv learns maths with Amish jigsaws and How to Dig a Winter Grave. Grandma's methods may be unorthodox, but she has faced the worst of life with a wild, independent spirit and this is what she hopes to pass on.

    Time is running short. Grandma's health is failing and the baby is on the way - can Grandma inspire this fire in Swiv, and ensure it never goes out?

    Poignant, hilarious and deeply moving, Fight Night is a girl's love letter to the women raising her and a tribute to one family's fighting spirit.

    'A love letter to our brave and brilliant matriarchs.' Glamour
    'Miriam Toews is a genius.' R. O. Kwon
    'As compelling and hilarious and indecently sad as life can be.' Financial Times