Eileen Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016

<b>*SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016*</b><br> <br> <b>Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys' prison, Eileen Dunlop dreams of escaping to the big city.</b><br> <br> In the meantime, her nights and weekends are filled with shoplifting and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father's messes.<br> <br> When the beautiful, charismatic Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counsellor at the prison, Eileen is enchanted, unable to resist what appears to be a miraculously budding friendship. But soon, Eileen's affection for Rebecca pull her into a crime that far surpasses even her own wild imagination.<br> <br> <b>'Fully lives up to the hype. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven's wing, <i>Eileen</i> is effortlessly stylish and compelling' <i>The Times</i></b><br> <br> <b>*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD 2016*</b>