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Penance: A Novelby Eliza Clark is set seven years after the brutal murder of a 16-year-old teenager on the eve of the Brexit vote in the fictional northern sleepy sea-side town of Crow-upon-Sea. Alex Z. Carelli is a journalist who travels to the town to begin to piece together what actually happens, with the story taking the reader along for the investigation as he speaks to the neighbors, family members, friends and acquaintances of the victim. We also read the podcast, articles, emails, chats, forum comments that were exchanged at the time and had a profound impact on the youth. Among other themes, the novel looks into the impact of online radicalization on the youth and the cruelty between adolescents that can have grisly consequences.

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