The Killing Jar by Nicola Monaghan (9780701179830)

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"Five-year-old Kerrie-Ann Hill has an unusual neighbour. Mrs Ivanovich collects butterflies, and Kerrie-Ann is entranced by them. Mrs Ivanovich shows her how to catch them, how to take care of them, and even, with a jar and some strange-smelling powder, how to kill them. Kerrie-Ann loves looking at these beautiful, delicate creatures in their cases, and imagining them flying free... This is Kerrie-Ann's story. She doesn't know who her father is, and her mother is a junkie. By the age of 10, she's sent out by her mother's boyfriend to sell drugs in school playgrounds. By the age of 12, she's been beaten up by a customer, hidden stolen guns in the dump behind the estate, done time in a girls' home, and already has a taste for whizz. And then there's Mark.... her only true friend and the one person she can really trust. Their friendship turns into a powerful yet ultimately destructive love, and in this world of dealing and violence, addictions become all-consuming and it's easy to lose control, even to get to a point where you could find a butchered dog in a bin liner in the back of your shed and be relieved. On this drug-fuelled estate with an atmosphere as lethal as the killing jar

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