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**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

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