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***Jenni Fagan’s new novel The Delusions is available now***

A GRANTA BEST YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST AND WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTION AND THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE

‘One of the most cunning and spirited novels I’ve read for years’
ALI SMITH

‘Knocked the breath out of me’
OBSERVER

‘Glorious, unforgettable’
THE TIMES

Fifteen-year-old Anais Hendricks is smart, funny and fierce, but she has also been let down by every adult she has ever met. Sitting in the back of a police car, she finds herself headed for The Panopticon, a home for chronic offenders where the social workers are as suspicious as its residents. But Anais can’t remember the events that have led her there, or why she has blood on her school uniform…

Bold, brave and joyous, Jenni Fagan’s critically acclaimed debut is a masterful depiction of systematic failure and one girl’s fight back.

‘An astonishing debut’
JACKIE KAY

‘Ferocious and devastating’
ELEANOR CATTON

‘A true literary masterpiece’
EMMA JANE UNSWORTH

‘Startlingly accomplished’
FINANCIAL TIMES

‘Simply unforgettable’
THE SCOTSMAN

‘Confident, deftly wrought, compelling’
FINANCIAL TIMES

Publisher Review

The 15-year-old heroine and narrator, has a rough, raw, joyous voice that leaps right off the page and grabs you by the throat...This punkish young philosopher is struggling with a terrible past, while battling sinister social workers...The glorious Anais is unforgettable. * The Times * Written with great verve and brio ... An astonishing debut, I have a feeling that Fagan is a name we will hear more of. -- Jackie Kay Not just uncompromising and courageous. I think it's one of the most cunning and spirited novels I've read for years... An intelligent and deeply literary novel. -- Ali Smith Each page sparkles with the ebullient and sinister magic of great storytelling ... An utterly magnificent achievement. * Irvine Welsh * It's in the Margaret Atwood/The Handmaid's Tale vein - very literary and suspenseful...Set in an altered reality - one that feels familiar and yet deeply unfamiliar, that embodies some of the dailiness of life, and yet slowly reveals itself to be a very different, much more sinister place. -- Gillian Flynn, author of GONE GIRL