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Structurally audacious and written with an understated power, Watson’s debut novel recounts the minutiae of an ordinary day from the point of view of a woman living with the legacy of sexual abuse.
Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize 2021
little scratch tells the story of a day in the life of an unnamed woman, living in a lower-case world of demarcated fridge shelves and office politics; clock-watching and WhatsApp notifications.
In a voice that is fiercely wry, touchingly delicate and increasingly neurotic, the protagonist relays what it takes to get through the quotidian detail of that single trajectory - from morning to night - while processing recent sexual violence.
little scratch is about the coexistence of monotony with our waking, intelligent lives. It is a powerful evocation of how the external and internal aspects of our lives exist in a helix, and what it means to live out the course of a single day consumed by trauma.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571356591
Number of pages: 240
Weight: 267 g
Dimensions: 216 x 153 x 16 mm
Edition: Main
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Startlingly original.' - Vogue'Extraordinary.' - New Yorker'Wry, funny and heartbreaking.' - Sophie Mackintosh'little scratch is a story that is urgent. It is a story that needs to be told.' - Meena Kandasamy'Reads like the cinders settling in the air after an explosion... daring and completely readable.' - Colin Barrett'little scratch is a little miracle... impossible to read it and not wish there were more books like it.' - Alan Trotter'Confident and vital...little scratch is an absolute gift.' - Naoise Dolan
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“Insightful, experimental, and thought-provoking”
Thank you to Faber and NetGalley for an advance e-copy of this title.
Little Scratch was an interesting, thought-provoking and innovative debut novel. The style is extremely experimental, which may not be everyone’s...
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“An important topic and an attempt to experiment with literary form”
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