<p><b>**Shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2021**</b><br><b><br>**Shortlisted for The Desmond Elliott Prize 2021**</b><br><b><br>**An <i>Observer</i> 10 Best Debut Novelists of 2021**</b><br><b><br>''A</b><b>n extremely perceptive depiction of power and agency.'' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><b>''Startlingly original.'' <i>VOGUE</i></b><br><b>''Extraordinary.''<i> New Yorker</i></b><br><i><br>little scratch</i> tells the story of a day in the life of an unnamed woman, living in a lower-case world of demarcated fridge shelves and office politics; clock-watching and WhatsApp notifications. In a voice that is fiercely wry, touchingly delicate and increasingly neurotic, the protagonist relays what it takes to get through the quotidian detail of that single trajectory ¿ from morning to night ¿ while processing recent sexual violence.<br><br><i>little scratch </i>is about the coexistence of monotony with our waking, intelligent lives. It is a powerful evocation of how the external and internal a