Product Description
Thirst
Author: Kerry Hudson
Format: Paperback
Prix Femina 2015
European Strega Prize 2016
From the prize-winning author of Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma
Winner of the Prix Femina Etranger
London, in the frayed heat of summer. Alena is shoplifting shoes when Dave catches her in the act and so begins an unlikely relationship between two people with little in common and everything to lose.
But the past is a dark place. And both of them have secrets they've no idea how to live with - or leave behind. Yet still they find themselves fighting with all they've got for a future together. But is love enough?
'Accomplished... Beautiful... Heart-wrenching' — Independent on Sunday
Shortlisted for the Prix Femina Prize
About the Author
Kerry Hudson was born in Aberdeen. Her first novel, Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma, won the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust First Book Award and was shortlisted for an array of prizes including the Guardian First Book Award and the Sky Arts Award. Thirst, her second novel, won the prestigious Prix Femina étranger. Lowborn, her highly acclaimed first work of non-fiction, was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, a Guardian and Spectator Book of the Year and Stylist Book of the Decade. It is followed by Newborn. She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020.
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