When I Hit You

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARAN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Courageous and brave and disturbing and will stay with you for a long time' -- StylistCaught in the hook of love, a young woman marries a dashing university professor. She moves to a rain-washed coastal town to be with him, but behind closed doors she discovers that her perfect husband is a perfect monster. As he sets about battering her into obedience and as her family pressures her to stay in the marriage, she swears to fight back - a resistance that will either kill her or set her free.

Product details

• Authors: Meena Kandasamy, Kandasamy Meena
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781786491282
• ISBN: 978-1-78649-128-2
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 202 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, domestic violence, Fiction: general and literary, Intended primarily or specifically for women and/or girls, Biography: writers