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Aug
Helen Palmer grew up in Blackpool before heading to Goldsmiths to study literature. Now a creative writing lecturer, her academic career has taken her to the US and around Europe, where she now lives in Vienna. She tells Blackpool Social Club that although she left her hometown, the idea of writing about it never left her. Helen Palmer's debut novel Pleasure Beach (Prototype Publishing) unfolds on 16th June 1999 – a queer love story and spans multiple voices and styles in 24 hours. The interconnecting stories of three 19-year-old women are structured and themed in the same way as James Joyce’s…