Conville & Walsh
Flick
- Author: Abigail Tarttelin
- Category: Fiction Debut
- Publisher: Beautiful Books
- Pub date: March 2011
- Length: 53,000 words
About Flick
Flick is a brighter than average fifteen year old boy. Growing up in Marske, near Middlesborough, expectations are so low that he succumbs to most available temptations, in a bid to distract himself from his boredom. Drinking, smoking and snogging get him through the weekend. Being exactly The Right Amount of Stoned gets him through the long school days.
But then a girl called Rainbow arrives in town. She’s clever, she’s sexy, and she won’t take any shit. She challenges Flick at every turn.
This stunning novel is about a demographic that’s rarely written about with such insight. It’s about young adults, who take drugs, ‘dance and drink and screw, because there’s nothing else to do.’ And it‘s a very romantic love story.
About the Author
Abigail Tarttelin was born in 1987 and grew up in North East England. At the age of fourteen she became one of the first 100 members of the National Academy of Gifted and Talented Youth, passing a rigorous selection process which deemed her within the top percentile of academic ability.
She works as both an actress and a writer, attending Comic-Con and Cannes Film Festival with her films The Butterfly Tattoo, based on the novel by Philip Pullman, and Schrodinger’s Girl, and in 2009 she became one of only two actresses to make it into Moviescope magazine’s ‘Ones To Watch’ selection.
She has also written for feminist blog Women & Hollywood and as a screenwriter for award-winning filmmaker Chris Jones at Living Spirit Pictures.
Abigail lives, works and reads in central London.