Eileen

Author: Ottessa Moshfegh

Format: Paperback

CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for First Novels 2016

Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2016

Gordon Burn Prize 2016

**Now a Major Film**
**Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize**

It is winter-time and Eileen Dunlop is dreaming of escaping her life...

In the meantime, her time is spent caring for her alcoholic father, working as a secretary in a prison and shoplifting.

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, Eileen's affection for Rebecca pulls her into a crime that far surpasses even her own wild imagination.

**From the Author of Tiktok Sensation My Year of Rest and Relaxation**

'Fully lives up to the hype. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven's wing, Eileen is effortlessly stylish and compelling' — The Times

*Shortlisted for the Cwa New Blood Dagger Award*

About the Author

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England and the author of six books. Eileen was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands and Lapvona were all New York Times bestsell­ers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. She lives in Southern California.

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