Rebecca Watson 
little scratch [EPUB ebook] 
Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2021

**Shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2021**
**Shortlisted for The Desmond Elliott Prize 2021**
**An Observer 10 Best Debut Novelists of 2021**
»A n 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 Whats App 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.
*Please note that due to e Book formats, this title is not compatible with the Paperwhite device.*
»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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