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10 Best Books of 2022. The New York Times Book Review

Brilliant, unique, feminist. Claire-Louise Bennett is a remarkable author.

With breathtaking intensity, the award-winning British writer Claire-Louise Bennett tells the story of a young woman - from discovering her own body, insisting on independence, to an unbounded love for literature. In a working-class town in a county west of London, a young girl scribbles stories on the last pages of her notebook, intoxicated by the first sparks of her imagination. As she grows up, everything and everyone she encounters becomes fuel for her talent: the Russian man with the old chestnut-brown car who shops at the supermarket where she works at checkout 19 and slips her a copy of Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil." The ever-growing stack of books in which she loses herself - and finds herself again.