Tom Benn Oxblood : Winner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer

Winner of the 2022 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year AwardA Sunday Times Paperback of the YearLonglisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2023Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022Oxblood shows us that there are few places literature cant take us, if the writer is brave enough, and gifted enough FRANCIS SPUFFORDThe master of northern noir SUNDAY TIMESBrilliant DENISE MINA An absolute triumph GUARDIANPowerful and so beautifully written HARRIET TYCE, Sunday Timesbestselling author of BLOOD ORANGEWythenshawe, South Manchester. 1985. The Dodds family once ruled Manchesters underworld now the men are dead, leaving three generations of women trapped in a house haunted by violence, harbouring an unregistered baby and the ghost of a murdered lover. Over the course of a few days, Nedra, Carol and Jan must each confront the true legacy of the men who have defined their lives and seize the opportunity to break the cycle for good. If I read a better novel than Oxblood in 2022, itll be a blinding year for fiction JOSEPH KNOXA propulsive, bountiful, fearless work of art OYINKAN BRAITHWAITEOne of the most powerful and urgent writers of our times DAVID PEACE | Tom Benn Oxblood : Winner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer