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The Unloved

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241146590

  • Length: 208  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 199g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Unloved

A hypnotising summer novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home
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A group of hedonistic West European tourists gather to celebrate Christmas in a remote French chateau. Then an Englishwoman is brutally murdered, and the sad, eerie child Tatiana declares she knows who did it.

The subsequent inquiry into the death proves to be more of an investigation into the nature of love, insatiable rage and sadistic desire. The Unloved offers a bold and revealing look at some of the events that shaped European and African history, and the perils of a future founded on concealed truth.
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'Brave and brilliant, measured and lyrical' Independent

'Levy's prose throbs its way into the imagination' Observer

'Startling, compelling, cool' The Times

'Levy's sense of dramatic form is unerring, and her precise, dispassionate prose effortlessly summons people and landscapes' New Yorker

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241146590

  • Length: 208  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 199g

  • RRP: £8.99

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About the Author

Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy is the author of seven novels: Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography, The Unloved, Billy and Girl, Swimming Home, Hot Milk and The Man Who Saw Everything. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Man Booker Prize. Her short story collection, Black Vodka, was nominated for the International Frank O'Connor Short Story Award and was broadcast on BBC Radio 4, as were her acclaimed dramatizations of Freud's iconic case studies, Dora and The Wolfman. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and her pioneering theatre writing is collected in Levy: Plays 1. Her work is widely translated. Deborah Levy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is also the author of a formally innovative and emotionally daring trilogy of memoirs, a living autobiography on writing, gender politics and philosophy. The first two volumes, Things I Don't Want to Know and The Cost of Living, won the Prix Femina Etranger 2020. The final volume, Real Estate, will be published in Spring 2021.

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Hot Milk by Deborah Levy

A richly mythic, colour-saturated tale from Deborah Levy exploring the violently primal bond between mother and daughter.

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