Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2021
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 WhatsApp 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.
| ISBN: | 9780571356591 |
| Publication date: | 13th January 2022 |
| Author: | Rebecca Watson |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Primary Genre | Literary Fiction |
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