![]() ![]() Eileen is introduced to us as a rather non-descript kind of young woman, with few memorable or redeeming features. The narrator is reflecting on events 50 years before. The story is located in coastal New England, near Boston, in 1964 at Christmas time. Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times, Observer and Daily Telegraph.Shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger Award 2016.Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2016.Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016.It’s a book that has done very well in the literary awards and accolades: And she lives in a town so dull that she calls it X-ville. She does not have much going in her favour in the novel: a dreary job, a dead mother, a drunken father. Although in her 20s the narrator, Eileen, appears to be obsessed in the ways that adolescents can be: bodily functions, secret passions, easily influenced, hard exterior. ![]() This is a dark book, not so much frightening as – well, dark. ![]()
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