The Mars Room - Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE<BR>THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<BR><BR>A fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, friendship and incarceration, from the author of the internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers.<BR><BR>'Astounding... this year's must-read' ANNE ENRIGHT<BR><BR>Romy Hall is starting two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility. Her crime? The killing of her stalker.<BR><BR>Inside awaits a world where women must hustle and fight for the bare essentials. Outside: the San Francisco of her youth. The Mars Room strip club where she was once a dancer. Her seven-year-old son, Jackson.<BR><BR>As Romy forms friendships over liquor brewed in socks and stories shared through sewage pipes her future seems to unfurl in one long, unwavering line - until news from beyond the prison bars forces Romy to try and outrun her destiny.<BR><BR>* Pre-order Rachel Kushner's new novel, Creation Lake, now *<BR><BR>'Breathtaking' VOGUE<BR><BR>'One of our most outstanding modern writers' STYLIST<BR><BR>'Gritty, empathetic, finely rendered' MARGARET ATWOOD (on Twitter)