The influence of “In Cold Blood”, Truman Capote’s pioneering true-crime tale, can be felt throughout Eliza Clark’s second novel
popularised the idea of the “non-fiction novel”. Truman Capote’s book, published in 1966, reconstructed the grim events of November 15th 1959, when a farmer, his wife and two of their children were massacred at their home in rural Kansas by two men trying to rob them. Capote’s chronicle comes alive through the testimonies of a range of interviewees—or “collaborators”, as he called them—including the two killers.
The influence of that pioneering true-crime tale can be felt throughout “Penance”, Eliza Clark’s second novel. Capote hoped to make his story as gripping and lyrical as fiction, whereas Ms Clark’s subject is an imagined murder. An interview with Alec Z. Carelli, the narrator and the purported “author” of the book, is included in the end matter. He claims his exhaustively researched tome tells the definitive story of the murder of a teenage girl in Yorkshire.
Carelli begins by outlining the main details of the case. On June 23rd 2016 Joan Wilson, a 16-year-old girl, was tortured and set on fire in a beach chalet in her home town of Crow-on-Sea. Her assailants were three girls whom she knew from school. Two of them have since been released from a secure unit and given new identities; the ringleader continues to serve an adult sentence.
Rounding out the report are Tumblr posts and podcast transcripts, diary entries and fan-fiction excerpts, emails and texts. Four lengthy prose sections highlight the girls’ jealousies, rivalries, shifting loyalties and “obsessions and furies”. Carelli adds further colour by vividly mapping his setting, ain decline, and charting its bloody history. But as Carelli’s own history is revealed, the reader begins to re-evaluate his version of the truth.
Like “Boy Parts” , Ms Clark’s debut, “Penance” is a darkly compelling study of violence, madness and manipulation. It is grimly topical in light of the frequent
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