Audition**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025** A GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT and NEW STATESMAN Book of the Year 'Slick, sharp, strange and singular . . . You'll gulp this novel down in one in breath' SAMANTHA HARVEY, Booker Prize winning author of Orbital 'A lightning bolt of a novel' FINANCIAL TIMES 'I'm not sure there's anyone better writing in America today' ALEX PRESTON, Observer One woman, the

then she'll be free

Correction: Florence Darrow IS going to be a writer

Try repurposing an old wooden pallet

glorious collection of stories

alert and deeply

An authoritative history of the French nation that can be read for novelistic pleasure

While confined to a series of hospital wards

he finds himself part of a group of hunters all searching for the same boy

Branded a king's enemy

Written with emotional health advocate Will Van Der Hart

Even as a child

sensitivity and soul