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By Sarah Pinborough
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I was dead for 13 minutes.
I don’t remember how I ended up in the icy water but I do know this – it wasn’t an accident and I wasn’t suicidal.
They say you should keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but when you’re a teenage girl, it’s hard to tell them apart. My friends love me, I’m sure of it. But that doesn’t mean they didn’t try to kill me. Does it?
13 MINUTES by Sarah Pinborough is a gripping psychological thriller about people, fears, manuiplation and the power of the truth. A stunning read, it questions our relationships – and what we really know about the people closest to us . . .
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Read by members of Longlevens Book Club, this tale of toxic teenage cliques is the most absorbing and compelling book we've read for a long time.
Pinborough 's elegant and subtle control of the plot matches the manipulation carried out by her characters. Although the central characters are teenagers, we would not class this as a YA novel. It is a psychological drama of appearance and reality, insiders and outsiders, dominion and dependency. How better to portray this than through the intensity of adolescent 'forever friends'?
