C.J. Flood, also known as Chelsey Flood, graduated from the University of East Anglia in 2010 with an MA in creative writing. She has won several prizes and awards for her writing, including the Curtis Brown Award, and also received funding from the Arts Council to complete Infinite Sky. She blogs as a member of the Lucky 13s and at CJFlood.blogspot.co.uk, and tweets as @cjflood_author. Infinite Sky is her debut novel and she is currently working on her next book in Bristol.
* Flood's debut novel is a slow burn. Its beauty, like that of the
book's rural England setting, grows on you, building with every
scene. At first, it's prosaic like a sunny summer day, but as the
pages flit by, it becomes as profound and tragically brutal as
nature itself. Thirteen-year-old Iris has a lot to deal with as
summer commences. . . . In an impressively realized, matter-of-fact
first-person narration, Flood fully inhabits Iris. . . . Whether
she is describing the near silence of the countryside, a stifling
conversation with a classmate's nosy mother, or an argument that
explodes into violence, Flood's understated, gently embellished
prose cuts to the bone.-- "Booklist, March 2014, *STARRED
REVIEW*"
Iris and Trick and their families are all sympathetically portrayed
in this debut novel that skillfully balances moments of
introspection and action, loyalty and betrayal, and, most
indelibly, happiness and heartbreak.-- "Horn Book Magazine,
May/June 2014"
Iris is forced to confront the confusing intersection of love,
loyalty, and culpability. Told in the first person, this is a
moving story of a young English girl's coming-of-age.-- "School
Library Journal, April 2014"
Tragedy emerges from the commonplace miseries of everyday life in
this evocative mood piece. . . . Readers who don't need endings
tied up with tight little bows will find much to think about
here.-- "Kirkus Reviews, April 2014"
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