Liz Berry: 6 books

WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2014 *PBS Recommendation 2014* ‘When I became a bird, Lord, nothing could not stop me…’ In Black Country, Liz Berry takes flight: to Wrens Nest, Gosty Hill, Tipton-on-Cut; to the places of home. The poems move from the magic...

Seventeen-year-old Mel Calder is desperate for her life to change, and she is learning the hard way that only she can make it happen. Left alone in their run-down house after her mother’s breakdown, Mel decides to repair and redecorate it for her mother when she comes home, but it’s not long before...

Clare is chilled by her mother's warnings to stay away from Ravensmere, but she knows she has to go there - it is not a choice but a compulsion. And she only intends to stay a few weeks anyway, just until she goes to university in the autumn. Ravensmere is a strange, enchanting place, but Clare...

*'The Republic of Motherhood' Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem* ‘I crossed the border into the Republic of Motherhood and found it a queendom, a wild queendom.’ In this bold and resonant gathering of poems, Liz Berry turns her distinctive voice to the transformative...

Cathy Harlow, a brilliant young painter, has at last given in to the pressures around her and agreed to marry rock musician superstar, Paul Devlin, and to keep his baby. But Cathy is still filled with doubts, for her art is the most important thing in her life and at only seventeen she desperately...

‘No more exams. No more boring holiday work. Just two blissful weeks painting in the country - then, art college at last. Just paint, paint, paint!’ Cathy Harlow is a gifted painter. She is seventeen and three glorious years at art college stretch ahead of her. But when she meets Paul Devlin,...