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SENSATIONAL WINNERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

''It''s been a long time since a novel has destroyed me like this . . . One of the boldest writers alive today.'' Max Porter
''A novel of exquisite discomfort and delicious poetry . . . Made me laugh and gasp . . . I''m in awe.'' Brandon Taylor
''Rejuvenating, glorious, brilliant. A book about obsession with prose that obsessed me from the first line.'' Daisy Johnson

In the tempestuous summer of 2005, a local veterinarian becomes enraptured by a 14-year-old farmer's daughter his favourite' as he tends her father's cows. This deeply troubled soul is our narrator: a man who believes he offers the object of his love a tantalizing path out of the constrictions of her conservative rural life, a chance to escape to a world of fantasy. But the obsessive reliance he cultivates builds into a terrifying trap, with a crime and confession at the heart of it that threatens to rip their small c

My Heavenly Favourite

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    A Hardback by Lucas Rijneveld, Michele Hutchison

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 1 February 2024
      ISBN-13 9780571375493
      978-0571375493
      ISBN-10 0571375499
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      SENSATIONAL WINNERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

      ''It''s been a long time since a novel has destroyed me like this . . . One of the boldest writers alive today.'' Max Porter
      ''A novel of exquisite discomfort and delicious poetry . . . Made me laugh and gasp . . . I''m in awe.'' Brandon Taylor
      ''Rejuvenating, glorious, brilliant. A book about obsession with prose that obsessed me from the first line.'' Daisy Johnson

      In the tempestuous summer of 2005, a local veterinarian becomes enraptured by a 14-year-old farmer's daughter his favourite' as he tends her father's cows. This deeply troubled soul is our narrator: a man who believes he offers the object of his love a tantalizing path out of the constrictions of her conservative rural life, a chance to escape to a world of fantasy. But the obsessive reliance he cultivates builds into a terrifying trap, with a crime and confession at the heart of it that threatens to rip their small c

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