Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

Hurricane Season by Fernanda MelchorThe Witch is dead. After a group of children playing near the irrigation canals discover her decomposing corpse, the village of La Matosa is rife with rumours about how and why this murder occurred. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, Fernanda Melchor paints a moving portrait of lives governed by poverty and violence, machismo and misogyny, superstition and prejudice. Written with an infernal lyricism that is as affecting as it is

everyone's moving to the suburbs

I cried my eyes out' Tom Fletcher

and the most unusual babysitter you've ever seen

freeing her from her past and reuniting her with those she loves

Mr Gray is determined that she must go

Bíonn timpistí go minic aige

Our Problems With the People We Are Attracted To

can she make friends with them

Your phone is too big for your hand

But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group

He loved adventure and

WINNER: ORWELL PRIZE POLITICAL FICTION 2019