Little Scratch

Little Scratch

by Rebecca Watson
3/5

**Shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2021** **Shortlisted for The Desmond Elliott Prize 2021** **An Observer 10 Best Debut Novelists of 2021** 'An extremely perceptive depiction of power and agency.

' Guardian 'Startlingly original.

' VOGUE 'Extraordinary.

' New Yorker 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.

'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 www.

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Format
240 pages
First published
2022
Publishers
Faber & Faber· Limited

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