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little scratch

By: Rebecca Watson
Narrated by: Rebecca Watson
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A unique audiobook experience, written and performed by one of the most talented young authors to have emerged in recent British fiction.

Nominated for the Desmond Elliot Prize

little scratch tells the story of a day in the life of an unnamed woman, living in a lower-case world of demarcated fridge shelves and office politics; clock-watching and WhatsApp notifications. In a voice that is fiercely wry, touchingly delicate and increasingly neurotic, the protagonist relays what it takes to get through the quotidian detail of that single trajectory - from morning to night - while processing recent sexual violence.

little scratch is about the coexistence of monotony with our waking, intelligent lives. It is a powerful evocation of how the external and internal aspects of our lives exist in a helix and what it means to live out the course of a single day consumed by trauma.

Rebecca Watson is Assistant Arts Editor at the Financial Times. Her work has been published in the Times Literary Supplement and Granta. In 2018, she was shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize.

©2020 Rebecca Watson (P)2020 W F Howes
Women's Fiction Fiction Short Story

Critic Reviews

"Extraordinary." (New Yorker)

"A daringly experimental debut." (The Guardian)

"[An] astonishing debut." (Financial Times)

"An incredible debut.... It’ll be on every prize list." (Stylist Magazine picks for 2021)

"Startlingly original." (Vogue)

"Wry, funny and heartbreaking." (Sophie Mackintosh)

"little scratch is a story that is urgent. It is a story that needs to be told." (Meena Kandasamy)

"Reads like the cinders settling in the air after an explosion...daring and completely readable." (Colin Barrett)

"little scratch is a little miracle...impossible to read it and not wish there were more books like it." (Alan Trotter)

"Confident and vital...little scratch is an absolute gift." (Naoise Dolan)

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