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Goldsboro Books

978-0571375493

My Heavenly Favourite

My Heavenly Favourite

by Lucas Rijneveld

Publisher Faber & Faber

Genre: General Fiction

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About the book

The electrifying new novel from the sensational bestselling winner 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 small community apart.

About the Author

Lucas Rijneveld

Lucas Rijneveld(b. 1991) grew up in a Reformed farming family in North Brabant before moving to Utrecht. One of thegreatest new voices in Dutch literature, his first poetry collection,Calf's Caul,was awarded the C. Buddingh' Prize for best poetry debut in 2015, with the newspaper de Volkskrant naming them literary talent of the year. In 2018, Atlas Contact published his first novel,The Discomfort of Evening,which won the prestigious ANV Debut Prize and was a national bestseller. The UK editionwon the Booker International Prize 2020. Alongside his writing career, Rijneveld works on adairy farm.

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