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STUDY FOR OBEDIENCE : SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023
STUDY FOR OBEDIENCE : SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2023NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINES BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023A powerful, compressed masterwork for fans of Shirley Jackson and Claire-Louise BennettA woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. The country, it transpires, is the country of their familys ancestors, an obscure though reviled people. Soon after she arrives, a series of unfortunate events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly-born lamb; a local dogs phantom pregnancy; the containment of domestic fowl; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed particularly in her case. What is clear is that she is being accused of wrongdoing, but in a language she cannot understand and so cannot address. And however diligently and silently she toils in service of the community, still she feels their hostility growing, pressing at the edges of her brothers property. Inside the house, although she tends to her brother and his home with the utmost care and attention, he too begins to fall ill...
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