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Harriet Said...
by Beryl Bainbridge
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Two teenage girls reunite for the summer on a drab stretch of the English coast, resuming a private game of surveillance, dares and cruel experiment. Harriet is the clever, commanding one; her unnamed friend narrates, eager to impress and terrified of being ordinary. When they set their sights on a sad middle-aged neighbour they nickname the Tsar, their manipulations slide from mischief toward something far colder. Bainbridge's first novel is short, sharp and deeply unsettling, written in a flat, watchful voice that makes ordinary seaside boredom feel menacing. A study of adolescent power, complicity and the moment play turns irreversible.
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