Eileen

Fifty years on, Eileen Dunlop tells of the final week she spent in the town she calls X-ville. At twenty-four she works in the office of Moorehead, a juvenile prison for boys, and keeps house for her father, a retired policeman who drinks and is convinced he is spied on; the house is filthy enough to set the neighbours talking. Full of self-loathing, she shoplifts, sits outside the apartment of Randy, a guard she fancies, and pictures running away to New York. Then Rebecca Saint John, beautiful and self-assured, starts as the prison's new director of education, and Eileen is captivated by what looks like a friendship, one that leads her toward a crime beyond anything she had imagined.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, 1964

First published

2015

Author's age

34 when first published

ISBN

9781594206627 (Penguin Press, United States)

9780143128755 (Penguin Books, United States)

9781784701468 (Vintage, United Kingdom)

9781784878528 (Vintage Classics, United Kingdom)

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