A Hunger

From the prizewinning author of GOD’S OWN COUNTRY

Ross Raisin

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Vintage
03 September 2023

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

From the prizewinning author of God's Own Country and A Natural comes a moving and intimate exploration of marriage, devotion and sacrifice, and a woman's enduring search for freedom.

From the prizewinning author of God's Own Country and A Natural comes a moving and intimate exploration of marriage, devotion and sacrifice, and a woman's enduring search for freedom.

'One of our best novelists' Daily Mail 'A superb achievement' Guardian 'Moving...and beautiful' Irish Times

Anita is a talented sous-chef at a high-end London restaurant. At home, however, her husband Patrick is suffering from dementia and declining rapidly.

As she is thrown between two conflicting worlds, Anita must make a decision- should she free them both by acting on his last plea for mercy, or should she remain faithful to the person Patrick used to be?

It's a decision complicated by ambition and the guilt of her own past - and by her intensifying friendship with another man, Peter, and the temptation of a new life.

By: Ross Raisin
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 320g
ISBN: 9781784702779
ISBN 10: 1784702773
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 03 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ross Raisin is the author of three novels- A Natural, Waterline and God's Own Country, which was shortlisted for nine literary awards. Ross has won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award and was named on Granta's most recent Best of Young British Novelists list. In 2018 he was awarded a Fellowship by the Royal Society of Literature. Ross teaches at the University of Leeds, for the Guardian Masterclass programme and for the education charity First Story. He lives in York. Find more on Ross, his books and teaching here- www.rossraisin.com

Reviews for A Hunger: From the prizewinning author of GOD’S OWN COUNTRY

[A] beautifully observed heart-wringer... for me there was no better novel published in 2022. * Daily Mail, *Books of the Year* * There can be no doubt he's one of our best novelists...Dealing sensitively with love, ambition and duty - not to mention the bodily experience of womanhood, from youth to late middle age...absolutely not to be missed. -- Anthony Cummings * Daily Mail * Ross Raisin's deeply thought out and beautifully unshowy fourth novel... is a superb achievement. * Guardian, *Book of the Day* * Gripping... Raisin is ambitious...and impressive in his execution. * Financial Times * Raisin's... most ambitious achievement yet... The attention to detail with which Anita is drawn means she steps outside the pages and lives enduringly in the reader's mind. -- John Self * Observer *