little scratch

*** Observer 10 Best Debut Novelists of 2021 ***\r\n\r\nAn extremely perceptive depiction of power and agency. Guardian\r\nStartlingly original. VOGUE\r\nExtraordinary. New Yorker\r\n\r\nlittle 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.\r\n\r\nlittle 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.\r\n\r\nlittle scratch is a story that is urgent. It is a story that needs to be told. Meena Kandasamy\r\nReads like the cinders settling in the air after an explosion... daring and completely readable. Colin Barrett\r\nlittle scratch is a little miracle... impossible to read it and not wish there were more books like it. Alan Trotter\r\nConfident and vital... little scratch is an absolute gift. Naoise Dolan\r\n\r\nwww.rebeccawatson.co.uk