Bookshop Choice: Chosen by Henry Layte and the team at The Book Hive, Norwich, East Anglia
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This book has a long and special history with The Book Hive. Eimear was living in Norwich at the time I was co-founding Galley Beggar Press and she mentioned to me that she had a novel she couldn’t get published. I read it on holiday and it was published the following year, turning her into an instant star who won many awards for the book. Her spellbinding reading illuminates every nuance of the text; the listener enters the narrator's head, experiencing her world at first hand. This isn't always comfortable – but it is always a revelation.
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Her prose is a visceral throb, and the sentences run meanings together to produce a kind of compression in which words, freed from the tedious march of sequence, seem to want to merge with one another, as paint and musical notes can. The results are thrilling, and also thrillingly efficient.
James Wood, The New Yorker
Length: 7 hours and 34 minutes
ONLY AVAILABLE IN THE UK.
