SENSATIONAL WINNERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
''It''s been a long time since a novel has destroyed me like this . . . One of the boldest writers alive today.'' Max Porter
''A novel of exquisite discomfort and delicious poetry . . . Made me laugh and gasp . . . I''m in awe.'' Brandon Taylor
''Rejuvenating, glorious, brilliant. A book about obsession with prose that obsessed me from the first line.'' Daisy Johnson
In the tempestuous summer of 2005, a local veterinarian becomes enraptured by a 14-year-old farmer-s daughter - his -favourite- - as he tends her father-s cows. This deeply troubled soul is our narrator: a man who believes he offers the object of his love a tantalizing path out of the constrictions of her conservative rural life, a chance to escape to a world of fantasy. But the obsessive reliance he cultivates builds into a terrifying trap, with a crime and confession at the heart of it that threatens to rip their smal
