Eileen

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<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016</b></p><p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2016</b></p><p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD 2016</b> <b></b> <b>Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in<i>The Times, Observer</i>and<i>Daily Telegraph</i></b></p><p><b>Fully lives up to the hype. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven's wing,<i>Eileen</i>is effortlessly stylish and compelling. - Robert Douglas-Fairhurst,<i>The Times</i></b></p><p>The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop. Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys prison, she tempers her dreary days with dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, her nights and weekends are filled with shoplifting and cleaning up her increasingly deranged fathers messes.</p><p>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, Eileens affection for Rebecca will pull her into a crime that far surpasses even her own wild imagination.</p>

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<b>Ottessa Moshfegh</b>is a fiction writer from Boston. She was awarded the Plimpton Prize for her stories in<i>The Paris Review</i>and granted a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her first book, the novella,<i>McGlue</i>, was recently published by Vintage. Her novel<i>Eileen</i>was awarded the 2016 Pen/Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her collection of stories,<i>Homesick for Another World</i>, was published in 2017.

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