Spill Simmer Falter Wither av Sara Baume

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<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2015</b><br><br><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE <i>GUARDIAN</i> FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015</b><br><br><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2016<br><br></b><b>WINNER OF THE <i>SUNDAY INDEPENDENT</i> NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2015</b><br><br><b>WINNER OF THE GEOFFREY FABER MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR FICTION<br><br></b><br><i>You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: COMPASSIONATE & TOLERANT OWNER. A PERSON WITHOUT OTHER PETS & WITHOUT CHILDREN UNDER FOUR.</i><br><br>A misfit man finds a misfit dog. Ray, aged fifty-seven, ¿too old for starting over, too young for giving up¿, and One Eye, a vicious little bugger, smaller than expected, a good ratter. Both are accustomed to being alone, unloved, outcast ¿ but they quickly find in each other a strange companionship of sorts. As spring turns to summer, their relationship grows and intensifies, until a savage act forces them t