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Shortlisted for the women’s prize for fiction the book everyone is talking about ‘just read it. it’s unforgettable’ india knight, the sunday times ‘it is impossible to read this novel and not be moved. it is also impossible not to laugh out loud… extraordinary’ guardian ‘full of snappy one-liners but, at the same time, remarkably poignant’ craig brown ‘probably the best book you’ll read this year’ mail on sunday ‘completely brilliant. i think every girl and woman should read it’ gillian anderson ‘exactly the book to read right now, when you need a laugh, but want to cry’ observer ‘the most wonderful, heartbreakingly gorgeous novel of the year’ elizabeth day, author of magpie ‘a raucously funny, beautifully written, emotion-bashing book’ the times ‘i was making a list of all the people i wanted to send it to, until i realised that i wanted to send it to everyone i know’ ann patchett, author of the dutch house ‘one of those “read it in one sitting and tell all your friends” kind of books’ evening standard ‘patrick melrose meets fleabag. brilliant’ clare chambers, author of small pleasures everyone tells martha friel she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband patrick. a gift, her mother once said, not everybody gets. so why is everything broken? why is martha – on the edge of 40 – friendless, practically jobless and so often sad? and why did patrick decide to leave? maybe she is just too sensitive, someone who finds it harder to be alive than most people. or maybe – as she has long believed – there is something wrong with her. something that broke when a little bomb went off in her brain, at 17, and left her changed in a way that no doctor or therapist has ever been able to explain. forced to return to her childhood home to live with her dysfunctional, bohemian parents (but without the help of her devoted, foul-mouthed sister ingrid), martha has one last chance to find out whether a life is ever too broken to fix – or whether, maybe, by starting over, she will get to write a better ending for herself. the book of the year an instant sunday times bestseller and a book of the year for the times and sunday times, guardian, observer, independent, mail on sunday, evening standard, spectator, daily express, irish times, irish examiner, irish daily mail, metro, critic, sydney morning herald, los angeles times, stylist, red and good housekeeping

Fantasy. high priestess-in-training zoey redbird juggles three prospective love interests while investigating a dark force lurking beneath the tulsa depot that is forcing her into a confrontation with the evil kalona

Darkly hilarious and searingly relevant, the rabbit hutch is a powerful portrait of 21st century america, seen through the eyes of the unforgettable blandine winner of the waterstones debut fiction prize 2022 * winner of the national book award for fiction 2022 ‘inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny’ observer vacca vale, indiana: recently voted number 1 on newsweek’s list of dying american cities. according to the developers, however, it’s a city with a whole history of reinvention, one that ‘buzzes with the american spirit.’ not everyone agrees though – certainly not the residents of the rabbit hutch, a low-cost housing complex in the once bustling industrial centre, populated by a cast of unforgettable, disenfranchised characters. there’s an online obituary writer, a woman waging a solo campaign against rodents and, most notably, eighteen-year-old blandine, recently released from foster care and determined to stop the developers whatever the cost. set over one sweltering week in july, the rabbit hutch is a savagely beautiful and bitingly funny snapshot of contemporary america. bold, experimental and brilliantly written, it will live in the memory long after the final page. a waterstones book of the year for 2022 ‘the rabbit hutch is 2022’s the secret history’ the big issue a finalist for the national book critics circle award * winner of the barnes & noble discover prize * an oprah daily book of the year, 2022 a new york times bestseller, sept 3 2023