AnotherPlanet_ATeenagerinSuburbia

Another Planet Also by Tracey Thorn Bedsit Disco Queen Naked at the Albert Hall Tracey Thorn Another Planet A Teenager in Suburbia First published in Great Britain, the USA and Canada in 2019 by Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE Distributed in the USA by Publishers Group West and in Canada by Publishers Group Canada canongate.co.uk This digital edition first published in 2019 by Canongate Books Copyright © Tracey Thorn, 2019 The moral right of the author has been asserted For permission credits please see p. 211 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library ISBN 978 1 78689 255 3 Export ISBN 978 1 78689 256 0 eISBN 978 1 78689 257 7 For Debbie and Keith And in memory of Audrey and Dennis With love CONTENTS Preface Another Planet Author’s Note Acknowledgements Permission Credits W PREFACE ‘You look as if you wished the place in Hell,’ My friend said, ‘judging from your face.’ ‘Oh well, I suppose it’s not the place’s fault,’ I said. ‘Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.’ (Philip Larkin: ‘I Remember, I Reme......