Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020 ''Insightful. Inventive. Hilarious. Genius'' EIMEAR MCBRIDE''Bina is fiction of the rarest and darkest kind, a work whose pleasures must be taken measure for measure with its pains'' RACHEL CUSK''A captivating look at female friendship'' MAIL ON SUNDAY My name is Bina and I''m a very busy woman. That''s Bye-na, not Beena. I don''t know who Beena is but I expect she''s having a happy life. I don''t know who you are, or the state of your life. But if you''ve come all this way here to listen to me, your life will undoubtedly get worse. I''m here to warn you . . .So begins this ''novel in warnings'' - an unforgettable tour de force in the voice of an ordinary-extraordinary woman who has simply had enough. Through the character of Bina, who is writing out her story on the backs of discarded envelopes, Anakana Schofield filters a complex moral universe filled with humour and sadness, love and rage, and the consolations, obligations and mysteries of lifelong friendship. A work of great power, skill, and transformative empathy from a unique and astonishing writer.

Finalist for the 2015 Giller Prize

Among The National Post''s Top 5 Books of 2015

Among The Toronto Star''s Top 5 Fiction Books of 2015

Among Largehearted Boy''s Favourite Novels of 2015

One of Quill & Quire’s Books of the Year, 2015

Among The Edmonton Journal''s Top 5 Books of 2015

A 49th Shelf Book of the Year, 2015

Among NOW Toronto''s Top 10 Books of 2015

Martin John’s mam says that she is glad he is done with it. But is Martin John done with it? He says he wants it to stop, his mother wants it to stop, we all want it to stop. But is it really what Martin John wants? He had it in his mind to do it and he did it. Harm was done when he did it. Harm would continue to be done. Who will stop Martin John? Will you stop him? Should she stop him?

From Anakana Schofield, the brilliant author of the bestselling Malarky, comes a darkly comic novel circuiting through the mind, motivations and preoccupations of a character many women have experienced but few have understood quite so well. The result confirms Schofield as one of the bravest and most innovative authors at work in English today.

Anakana Schofield is an Irish-born writer, who won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the Debut-Litzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 for her debut novel Malarky.

Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020 ''Insightful. Inventive. Hilarious. Genius'' EIMEAR MCBRIDE''Bina is fiction of the rarest and darkest kind, a work whose pleasures must be taken measure for measure with its pains'' RACHEL CUSK''A captivating look at female friendship'' MAIL ON SUNDAY My name is Bina and I''m a very busy woman. That''s Bye-na, not Beena. I don''t know who Beena is but I expect she''s having a happy life. I don''t know who you are, or the state of your life. But if you''ve come all this way here to listen to me, your life will undoubtedly get worse. I''m here to warn you . . .So begins this ''novel in warnings'' - an unforgettable tour de force in the voice of an ordinary-extraordinary woman who has simply had enough. Through the character of Bina, who is writing out her story on the backs of discarded envelopes, Anakana Schofield filters a complex moral universe filled with humour and sadness, love and rage, and the consolations, obligations and mysteries of lifelong friendship. A work of great power, skill, and transformative empathy from a unique and astonishing writer.

Finalist for the 2015 Giller Prize

Among The National Post''s Top 5 Books of 2015

Among The Toronto Star''s Top 5 Fiction Books of 2015

Among Largehearted Boy''s Favourite Novels of 2015

One of Quill & Quire’s Books of the Year, 2015

Among The Edmonton Journal''s Top 5 Books of 2015

A 49th Shelf Book of the Year, 2015

Among NOW Toronto''s Top 10 Books of 2015

Martin John’s mam says that she is glad he is done with it. But is Martin John done with it? He says he wants it to stop, his mother wants it to stop, we all want it to stop. But is it really what Martin John wants? He had it in his mind to do it and he did it. Harm was done when he did it. Harm would continue to be done. Who will stop Martin John? Will you stop him? Should she stop him?

From Anakana Schofield, the brilliant author of the bestselling Malarky, comes a darkly comic novel circuiting through the mind, motivations and preoccupations of a character many women have experienced but few have understood quite so well. The result confirms Schofield as one of the bravest and most innovative authors at work in English today.

Anakana Schofield is an Irish-born writer, who won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the Debut-Litzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 for her debut novel Malarky.