Welsh on The Rapture

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From Irvine Welsh's review of Liz Jensen's The Rapture in the Guardian Review:

Just in case the fates hadn't handed her enough jeopardy, Gabrielle decides to make a life-changing move from London to the coastal town of Hadport. Her relocation sees her employed at a secure unit for problem teenagers, where she will look after 16-year-old devil child and modern-day Nostradamus, Bethany Krall. Bethany has been incarcerated there since stabbing her Evangelical Christian mother to death with a screwdriver. From the moment I read that revelation, I suspect I liked Bethany much more than I was supposed to, and in a strange way she emerges as the moral centre of this eco-thriller. Her predictions come into sharper focus after a healthy zap of ECT. "Give me the volts!" is her repeated mantra.

I think he's sold me; I'm going to add it to my to-read list. With any luck, I might be able to fit it in sometime in late 2011...