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Marilyn and Me

Classification
Age Range	Adult
Category	Fiction
ISBN-10	1905614179
ISBN-13	978-1905614172

Rights
World	Eve White
Film	Eve White

Publishers
UK (C'wealth)	Cinnamon Press

Marilyn and Me

by Shanta Everington

"My name is Marilyn, like Marilyn Monroe. I was left for dead at a bus stop on Christmas Eve…"

Discover the captivating voice of Marilyn, a learning disabled young woman, as she faces some of the biggest challenges of her life.

The story opens with Marilyn in hospital after the attack, and follows her emotional journey back to independence. Marilyn wants to return to her seaside flat and her boyfriend Keith but the professionals and family who ‘care’ for her have other ideas.

The novel, which is written in chapters titled after Marilyn Monroe's films, draws parallels between the lives of these two complex and often misunderstood women.

A story of resilience from the voice of someone who understands more than others realise – funny, poignant, brilliantly observed.

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"A crafted and poignant story with oan riginal voice that captures, engages and leaves the reader breathless. Marilyn is an utterly likeable character with a gentleness that provokes emotional reaction. The searching, the need for identity and the wanting of independence all combine into a thought provoking and elegant debut."

Caroline Smailes, author of In Search of Adam

"Compassionate and insightful, Marilyn and Me is a stunning and heartbreaking novel. Marilyn's warm, courageous voice is startlingly authentic - her story unforgettable. This isn't just a compelling read,but a truly important one."

Megan Taylor, author of How We Were Lost

Everington's narrator is a delight - Jane is sweet and vulnerable but flawed. Everington's writng is never patronising and regularly touching, and the novel offers a handful of moments of real tenderness, making Marilyn and Me a very pleasurable read....eloquent and emotive."

VIEWPOINT magazine

"I absolutely loved this book! Marilyn is a wonderful mix of strength, determination, naivete, curiosity, and love. I love how she wants nothing more than to get back to her own apartment and start leading her own life again ...undeniably beautiful and freeing."

Audactity E-zine

Samples: 1

from MARILYN AND ME

My name is Marilyn, like Marilyn Monroe. I was left for dead at a bus stop on Christmas Eve. In the newspaper that Mum brought in, I was plain Jane again: a retard with mousy brown hair and big glasses. That picture was taken before I got to bleach my hair and choose my own clothes and be who I wanted. In my locker in the day centre, I have a poster of Marilyn Monroe pinned up. The one in the white dress, where it’s blowing up in the air and she’s laughing. I chose it because I thought she looked nice and it made me smile every morning when I opened the locker and because I wanted to be like her: pretty and happy and normal.

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