num_pages: 263
description: When her mother is sent to prison for three months for assaulting a policeman with a stiletto shoe, fifteen-year-old Caris goes gently off the rails. Whilst her taxi-driver father Mac attempts to keep the family together, Caris meets George, a boy from the other side of the vale and from a very different sort of family. Their relationship leads her away from school and what she has known, into a new and unnerving world - and looks set to throw the family into terrifying chaos. Julia Darling's acclaimed novel blends the gritty and the everyday with the evocative and the enchanting, to create an original, inventive and often moving portrayal of family ties, suburban life, love and growing up.
language: English
title: The Taxi Driver's Daughter
titlecomplete: The Taxi Driver's Daughter
genres: Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 198
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: RSL Encore Award
publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)