Girl

<b>** Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2020 **</b><br><b>Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction</b><br><b>Shortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction</b><br><b>Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2020</b><br><b></b><br><b>A <i>Times, Evening Standard</i> and <i>Financial Times</i> Book of the Year</b><br><br><i>I was a girl once, but not any more . . .</i><br><br>A young woman, barely more than a girl herself, must learn to survive with a child of her own, in a world which seems entirely consumed by madness. <br><br>As she navigates a landscape of terrors and trials, can she find a place of safety within a society blinkered by mistrust and denial? <br><b></b><br><b>'Astonishing.' <i>New Statesman</i></b><br><b> </b><br><b>'Raw and transfixing.' <i>Observer</i></b><br><b> </b><br><b>'Miraculous . . . Extraordinary.' <i>Mail on Sunday</i></b><br><b> </b><br><b>'A masterpiece.' <i>Irish Independent</i></b><br><b> </b><br><b>'Mesmerising.' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><b> </b><br><b>'Devastating and moving.' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b>