When I Hit You New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award (2004) utterly unnerving novel' - GILLIAN

utterly unnerving novel' - GILLIAN FLYNN

and presents a whole new perspective on how profit is created and divided

and now she lives with her grandmother - who finds it too painful to talk about what happened

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When I Hit You New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award (2004) utterly unnerving novel' - GILLIANSeduced by politics and poetry, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor and agrees to be his wife, but what for her is a contract of love is for him a contract of ownership. As he sets about reducing her to his idealised version of a kept woman, bullying her out of her life as an academic and writer in the process, she attempts to push back a resistance he resolves to break with violence and rape. Smart, fierce and courageous