Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD 2016 Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys prison Eileen Dunlop dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime her nights and weekends are filled with shoplifting and cleaning up her increasingly deranged fathers messes. When the beautiful charismatic Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counsellor at the prison Eileen is enchanted unable to Paperback softback