My Absolute Darling

`There are books we like well enough to recommend, but there are a very few - To Kill a Mockingbird, Catch-22, The Things They Carried - that we remember forever. To my own shortlist I can now add My Absolute Darling, by Gabriel Tallent ... The word "masterpiece" has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but My Absolute Darling absolutely is one' Stephen King `Tallent's breathtaking debut is a harrowing and at times psychologically difficult journey on the scale of A Little Life or The Goldfinch, but it's worth it ... A true inspiration' Harper's Bazaar `My Absolute Darling is an absolute triumph' National `If you liked Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, you'll love this' Daily Mail `A debut novel infused with the same spirit and raw power as To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, and other works we consider to be modern classics, and it will hold its own among them' 15 Bytes `[Turtle] recalls the great child characters of American Literature' New York Times `Easily one of my favourite debut novels of the last decade' Michele Filgate, Lit Hub `Fierce, insightful and gorgeously written debut. Outstanding' PSYCHOLOGIES magazine `Tallent's prose is outstanding, vivid and poetic' S Magazine `[Turtle] is a heroine who'll hover in your mind long after the final chapter, and Tallent has produced an intense, gloriously written account of her thrilling bid for freedom' Mail on Sunday `Vivid, tender and brutal' Elle Magazine `Brutal yet beautiful, My Absolute Darling has floored me. Dear Turtle, a heroine amidst the horror. Exceptional, unflinching storytelling' Ali Landâ , author of Good Me Bad Me `Unlike anything I've read before. An astonishing debut' Kate Hamer, author of The Girl in the Red Coat

Gabriel Tallent was born in New Mexico and raised on the Mendocino coast by two mothers. He received his B.A. from Willamette University in 2010, and after graduation spent two seasons leading youth trail crews in the backcountry of the Pacific Northwest. Tallent lives in Salt Lake City.