Heatstroke, Hazel Barkworth
Heatstroke, Hazel Barkworth
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Heatstroke
the dark, compulsive debut you won't be able to forget

Author: Hazel Barkworth

Narrator: Helen Duff

Unabridged: 11 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Review

Published: 05/28/2020

Synopsis

'Barkworth is excruciatingly good... An impressive first book' OBSERVER
'A sultry, stifling debut exploring power, consent and womanhood' COSMOPOLITAN
'The evocative one' HEAT magazine's READ OF THE WEEK
'Read next if you loved Three Women by Lisa Taddeo' WHISTLES newsletter

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Do you remember the summer that changed everything?

Rachel and her daughter never had secrets. Until now.

Lily is somewhere she shouldn't be. With someone she shouldn't be with.

Mia misses her best friend. But she let her down.

In the middle of a stifling heatwave, the three of them stand on the edge of irrevocable change. By the end, one burning question will remain... how could she let things go this far?

FOR FANS OF ZOE HELLER, EMMA CLINE, EXPECTATION AND MY DARK VANESSA.

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'I wanted to stay within its pages forever' CLARE MACKINTOSH

'Stylish and sensual' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE

'A thrilling look at mothers and daughters, adolescence, sex, suburbia and secrets' NELL FRIZZELL

'I am addicted... dark and twisty with beautiful, poetic writing' EMMA GANNON

'Sexy and provocative' LAURA JANE WILLIAMS

'Pulls you into its sweaty interior and keeps you gripped' RENEE KNIGHT

'I couldn't tear myself away' ERIN KELLY

'Compulsive, sticky and full of gorgeous writing' KIRSTIN INNES

'Gripping and intensely atmospheric... you won't want to put this down' HEAT

'A summer sizzler... with twists, turns and revelations in all the right places' EVENING STANDARD

(P)2020 Headline Publishing Group Ltd

About Hazel Barkworth

Hazel grew up in Stirlingshire and North Yorkshire before studying English at Oxford. She then moved to London where she spent her days working as a cultural consultant, and her nights dancing in a pop band at glam rock clubs. Hazel is a graduate of both the Oxford University MSt in Creative Writing and the Curtis Brown Creative Novel-Writing course. She now works in Oxford, where she lives with her partner. Heatstroke is her first novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by vivya on January 05, 2023

Very very well written!!!......more

Goodreads review by Shelleyrae on June 03, 2020

Heatstroke is a tense, atmospheric novel from Hazel Barkworth about mothers and daughters, desire and obsession, trust and betrayal. It begins when the best friend of Rachel’s fifteen year old daughter, Mia, disappears, but this is not really a story about the missing Lily, it is about what Rachel f......more

Goodreads review by Pheadra on August 25, 2021

This is a tale that plays out in the blazing heat of Summer. As the temperatures soar so does the imagination of unlikeable main character Rachel, mother of Mia. Rachel is a teacher. She had an affair with a fellow teacher(Mark) and when Mia's best friend Lily goes missing, of her own volition with......more

Goodreads review by Mags on December 05, 2020

I'm torn about this book. The writing is good. Especially for a debut novel. We feel the heat and oppression, not just of the weather, but of the relationships. But the subject matter made me very uncomfortable. Rachel is so well written that I hated her. She is so self obsessed and believes that an......more

Goodreads review by Di on December 05, 2020

This book is filled with evocative writing, but in my opinion, the plot is empty and totally underwhelming. There is no growth in any of the characters, the behaviour of the protagonist, Rachel, is ridiculous, and while the theme of the heatwave is carried out well, it in no way excuses or explains......more

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Painfully real, and so beautifully written I wanted to stay within its pages forever. Heatstroke is unsettling, challenging and utterly immersive

Stylish and sensual

A sultry, stifling debut Cosmopolitan

Tense, sultry, unsettling, sweaty and evocative . . . A thrilling look at mothers and daughters, adolescence, sex, suburbia and secrets

Pulls you into its sweaty interior and keeps you gripped to the end. Darkly atmospheric and so well written

Dark and unsettling Red

Sexy, sensual, difficult, provocative - I was hooked for every twist, turn and revelation. This is definitely one of the best reads of the summer. I was blown away

An atmospheric read that will draw you into its tangled web Woman & Home

I am addicted!... A gripping, dark and twisty read with beautiful, poetic writing

I gulped this whole thing down in one sitting. It's compulsive, sticky and full of gorgeous writing

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