Prairie Oyster: ‘Had me laughing, wincing, cheering, recognising, admiring - and turning pages, rapidly’ (Maggie Nelson)

'A masterful contribution to the canon of queer women's literature.A smart and uncomfortable dissection of longing' SHON FAYE'Sophie out-jars The Bell Jar with this dark and gleaming masterpiece' EILEEN MYLES'Unflinching, unexpected, radical, lyrical, and wholly original' SOPHIE MACKINTOSH-----Everything falls into place: she will get sober, she will eat well, she will start sleeping properly, she will work hard, she will resurrect her career, she will make The Lakes, she will charm Mitch, she will be somebodyPearl is a thirty-something filmmaker balanced precariously on the edge of an addiction-fuelled breakdown.When lesbian cult filmmaker Mitch Meyer shows an interest in her work about silver screen star Veronica Lake, Pearl's stilted life is given new meaning and she swaps alcoholism for romantic obsession; London for a summer in New York with Mitch. Prairie Oyster is a novel of queer longing, artistic fixation and the consequences of indulging our deepest desires.Poetic and moving,