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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016

A mordant story of obsession and suspense, by one of the brightest new voices in American fiction

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD 2016

Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys´ prison, Eileen Dunlop dreams of escaping to the big city.

In the meantime, her nights and weekends are filled with shoplifting and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father´s messes.When the beautiful, charismatic Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counsellor at the prison, Eileen is enchanted, unable to resist what appears to be a miraculously budding friendship. But soon, Eileen´s affection for Rebecca pull her into a crime that far surpasses even her own wild imagination.

´Fully lives up to the hype. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven´s wing, Eileen is effortlessly stylish and compelling´ The Times

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"Fully lives up to the hype. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven´s wing, Eileen is effortlessly stylish and compelling." Robert Douglas-Fairhurst The Times

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Ottessa Moshfegh has written four previous books: McGlue (2014); Eileen, which was awarded the 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; Homesick for Another World (2017); and My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018), which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize and will be filmed by Yorgos Lanthimos, the Oscar-winning director of The Favourite.

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