Lucas Rijneved | My Heavenly Favourite

9780571375516

13/02/25

PB

336 pages

Translated by Michele Hutchinson

The electrifying new novel from the sensational bestselling winners of the International Booker Prize and ‘one of the boldest writers alive today’ (Max Porter).

It’s been a long time since a book has destroyed me like this.’ Max Porter
‘Obsessed me from the first line.’ Daisy Johnson
‘I’m in awe.’ Brandon Taylor

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.