{"id":7006,"date":"2025-04-10T06:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T06:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/7006\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T06:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T06:14:16","slug":"new-book-by-edinburgh-author-to-be-published-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/7006\/","title":{"rendered":"New book by Edinburgh author to be published on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Words Fail Me, by Edinburgh author Frances McKendrick is published tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>WORDS FAIL ME By Frances McKendrick A therapist\u2019s job is to listen, not to get involved. Unless\u2026<\/p>\n<p> A gripping page-turner about angst, abuse and vicarious revenge A startlingly accomplished debut from a school counsellor turned novelist at the cutting edge of the adolescent mental health epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>Moving, entertaining and revelatory, Words Fail Me is a gripping page-turner, with a compelling mystery at its core and a hair-raising climax, which also shines a revealing light on contemporary adolescent agonies.\u00a0Frances McKendrick is a psychotherapist and writer living in Edinburgh with her husband and two children.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She won the Isobel Lodge Award for her short fiction, which has also been shortlisted for the Bath Short Story Award and the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize. Words Fail Me is her first novel. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u2018A dark and startling tale of righteous vengeance\u2019 Val McDermid<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Complex, timely and full of compassion\u2019 Ian Rankin\u00a0\u2018Brilliant\u2019 Ruth Padel<\/p>\n<p>PAPERBACK * \u00a39.99 * ISBN: 9781785634178\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"667\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/672dfce7f9f194ff1de66db7_Words-Fail-Me_5Nov-A.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-592537\"  \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/04\/new-book-by-edinburgh-author-to-be-published-on-thursday\/?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/04\/new-book-by-edinburgh-author-to-be-published-on-thursday\/?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"m-a-box-avatar-url\" href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/author\/phyllis-stephen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Phyllis-Summer-2022-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-100x100 size-100x100\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Founding Editor of The Edinburgh Reporter.<br \/>Edinburgh-born multimedia journalist and iPhoneographer.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Words Fail Me, by Edinburgh author Frances McKendrick is published tomorrow. WORDS FAIL ME By Frances McKendrick A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,4154,4155,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-7006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-edinburgh-local-news","10":"tag-edinburgh-news","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114312201112017723","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}