Michelle Steinbeck – författare

'Brilliant and completely unique' SOPHIE MACKINTOSH'Michelle Steinbeck is the lovechild of Robert Wasler and a witch' CAMILLA GRUDOVA'An absolute joyride of a novel. Surreal, highly dramatic and a feminist must-read' IRISH TIMES'I'm sorry, your mother was murdered.'Fila's mother Magdalena caused chaos every time she appeared in her daughter's life. Fila hasn't seen her in years, not since she disgraced their family by advertising her brothel in the newspaper.Now, news comes from Italy: Magdalena is dead. It's time for Fila to finally face her family history.Fila collects her mother's ashes and sets out, urn in tow, to retrace the whirlwind life of the woman last known as Favorita.Part hallucinatory road trip, part feminist revenge fantasy: Favorita is a wild, furious and mischievous novel from an incendiary new European talent.

'Brilliant and completely unique' SOPHIE MACKINTOSH'Michelle Steinbeck is the lovechild of Robert Wasler and a witch' CAMILLA GRUDOVA'An absolute joyride of a novel. Surreal, highly dramatic and a feminist must-read' IRISH TIMES'I'm sorry, your mother was murdered.'Fila's mother Magdalena caused chaos every time she appeared in her daughter's life. Fila hasn't seen her in years, not since she disgraced their family by advertising her brothel in the newspaper.Now, news comes from Italy: Magdalena is dead. It's time for Fila to finally face her family history.Fila collects her mother's ashes and sets out, urn in tow, to retrace the whirlwind life of the woman last known as Favorita.Part hallucinatory road trip, part feminist revenge fantasy: Favorita is a wild, furious and mischievous novel from an incendiary new European talent.

'I'm sorry, your mother was murdered.'Fila hasn't seen her chaotic mother Magdalena in years, not since she's disgraced their family by opening a brothel. Now, news comes from Italy: Magdalena has died under circumstances that Fila cannot help but find suspicious. Fila collects her mother's ashes and sets out, urn in tow, to retrace her family history and the whirlwind life of the woman last known as Favorita. Part feminist revenge fantasy, part hallucinatory road trip, Favorita is a blazing and inventive story of one woman's wild search for the truth and herself from an incendiary new European talent.