As a passionate advocate of lifelong learning, Frances Crawford was delighted to graduate with distinction at age sixty from Glasgow University’s Creative Writing program. Frances grew up in North Glasgow, and credits the people of Possilpark and Milton as her writing inspiration. She still lives in Glasgow with her family and likes libraries and punk rock.
A Bad, Bad Place is Crawford's debut novel.
At CrimeReads the author tagged six of her favorite books that explore disrupted and shattered childhoods, including:
Angie Thomas, The Hate U GiveRead about the other titles on the list at CrimeReads.
Aimed at young adults, this novel describes the fallout of a racist shooting in inner-city America. Sixteen-year-old Starr is the only witness to the shooting and her ordinary life with loving family comes to a shocking and abrupt end. When Starr makes the courageous decision to testify in court, she faces outrage, danger and threat.
The novel is a powerful depiction not only of a young black life wrecked by one incident, but also by daily injustice and inequality.
The Hate U Give is among Kai Harris's six portrayals of Black girlhood in fiction, Chris Whitaker's six top kid narrators in literature, Sif Sigmarsdóttir's top ten novels about burning issues for young adults, and Natasha Ochshorn's seven banned books that should be required reading.
--Marshal Zeringue
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