Escape Routes for Beginners - Tapa blanda

'Surreal and black but with a sarcastic vein of humour that saves the reader from despair, the tale spans three generations of a highly dysfunctional family living in difficult circumstances and with a whole portfolio of secrets and repressions' CITY TO CITIES 'Inventive and deliciously dark' COSMOPOLITAN, July issue 'At 27, Kira Cochrane is the youngest writer up for the Orange Prize for Fiction. ESCAPE ROUTES FOR BEGINNERS is about a girl living on a prison island where her father works' ELLE

Trapped on the tiny prison island where her father works as a correctional officer, 13-year-old Rita Mae Jones longs to escape. Rita Mae cannot understand why her alarmingly mismatched parents chose to come to this claustrophobic, brooding place ten years before. Even less can she understand why her emotionally repressed, socially ambitious mother and her fond but ineffectual father came to be married in the first place. But there are many things Rita Mae doesn't understand about her family. A prison riot is the catalyst which kickstarts a series of shocking revelations as the Jones family's disturbing secrets come tumbling into the open - with bizarre, alarming and wholly unexpected results.