Top ten fiction debuts of 2012

Steve Donoghue named his ten best fiction debuts of 2012, including: The Starboard Sea by Amber Dermont The opening of Dermont’s East Coast prep school novel is almost lazily deceptive in both tone and scope, lulling the reader with slangy first-person narration into what steadily becomes a gripping, emotionally intense story about friendship and betrayal, with a surprising and very pleasing