Scabby Queen by Kirstin Innes EPUB

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Scabby Queen by Kirstin Innes EPUB

A New Statesman book of the year.

Now that she’s gone, those who loved her, those who hated her and those who felt both ways at the same time are forced to ask one question: who was Clio Campbell?

Three days before her 51st birthday, Clio Campbell – one-hit wonder, political activist, life-long love and one-night stand – kills herself in her friend Ruth’s spare bedroom. And, as practical as she is, Ruth doesn’t know what to do. Or how to feel. Because knowing and loving Clio Campbell was never straightforward.

As news spreads, the story of Clio’s life spreads with it: from the Isle of Skye to an anarchist squat in Brixton, from a yoga retreat in Greece to Glasgow on the night of the Scottish referendum. Half a century of memories, of pain and of joy, and that peculiar feeling in between the two, are wrenched to the surface.

Scabby Queen is a portrait of a woman who refuses to compromise and a picture of a country that does nothing but. It’s about the silencing of women’s voices, the destructive power of the celebrity machine, but most of all it's about empathy: its motives, its limits and the way it endlessly transformed.

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