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Lost on Me

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LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN FLORIO PRIZE 2024

The 100,000 copy Italian bestseller for fans of Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy

'Deliciously enjoyable' Katherine Heiny

'I adored it' Naoise Dolan

'Hilarious' Roddy Doyle

'Thrillingly original' Monica Ali

Vero has grown up in Rome with her eccentric family: an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety; a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions; and a precocious genius brother at the centre of their attention. As she becomes an adult, Vero's need to strike out on her own leads her into bizarre and comical situations, and a complicated relationship with truth and storytelling ...

Critics Review

Highly entertaining, thought-provoking and one of 2023's best novels yet
Strong Words
Funny and tender
Financial Times, Best Books of the Year 2023
Wild, funny and disturbing, all I ask of a book about mothers and their daughters.
Irish Times, Best Books of 2023
Excellent ... written in a spare and precise style from the pen of a biting narrator. It would be simply impossible for a book this good to go unnoticed
Big Issue
Remarkable. A darkly funny novel of rhythm, subtlety and nuance ... a writer who deserves as wide an audience as possible
New European
Restless and sly ... intelligently spiky
The Times
I fell head over heels in love with Lost on Me. What a thrillingly original voice! Raimo writes with a tender brutality that is simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking
Monica Ali, author of Love Marriage
I adored Lost on Me. With combustive prose and oxidising wit, Veronica Raimo sets fire to the Bildungsroman. A clear-eyed comedic talent who bends the novel form to her will
A uproariously funny portrait of an unconventional family from a writer who knows the sliver of ice in the heart as well as she knows love. This deliciously enjoyable novel is a true original and one to savour
When the book you start reading is immediately hilarious and deeply disturbing, you know you're onto something special. Lost on Me is that book
Is it possible, today, to completely reinvent auto-fiction? For Veronica Raimo it clearly is. Get ready to talk about this book for a long, long time
This book made me want to clear my calendar and read everything of Raimo's I could get my hands on. Incisive, engrossing, and deeply funny
Like a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, Veronica Raimo mocks the absurdities of her family life as well as tries to reconcile her own ambiguous feelings. A bold, provocative, and original book
A desecrating and tender portrait of family that reels us in from the very first lines
Io Donna: Il Corriere della Sera
Many pages in this novel are so intense and unscrupulous that one feels the apprehension of being caught spying in a stranger's mailbox
Esquire Italia
Reading this novel is a blast ... Many of the pages are jellyfish stings: they burn on and on
Veronica Raimo is a stupendous comedian
La Stampa
A story that nails us down with a powerful first-person voice, clear and exhilarating.
Marie Claire Italia
With its stellar voice, Raimo's inquisitive and vulnerable novel proves tough to put down
Publishers Weekly
Lost on Me is the naughty grandson of Natalia Ginzburg's Family Lexicon ... Raimo has tapped the novelistic potential of her affections and has transformed them into comedy. The result deserves all of the praise flaunted on the cover
Il Corriere della Sera
Filled with humour and neuroses ... a witty and complex portrait of a woman becoming herself
Kirkus
Lost on Me was anything but; I was utterly seduced by this wry and fearless novel featuring the unforgettable voice of Vero, a young woman with a sharp sense of humour and a splendid eye for the absurd
What a fresh, vivid and unpredictable voice, bursting with life, I loved it. Finally something that's not like everything else.
This bittersweet work of autofiction charts Verika's journey through her neurotic childhood to womanhood and her attempts - literal and metaphorical - to escape her family and their influence. Smart, funny ... a sharply tender portrait of a young woman's becoming
Marie Claire, Best Books of 2023
If Sheila Heti was Italian and wrote a modern Franny & Zooey, it would approximate how powerful and magnificent Veronica Raimo's novel Lost on Me is.
Largehearted Boy
Infused with a hilarious dry wit wrung from a wry attitude to life, Lost On Me stands out as a brilliant and inventive modern novel in English thanks to an outstanding translation for which Leah Janeczko deserves much credit
New European, Best Books of 2023
If you enjoy Deborah Levy or Natalia Ginzburg, then you'll appreciate the writing of Italian author and translator, Veronica Raimo. Deeply original and with kudos from Naoise Dolan and Katherine Heiny, this bildungsroman follows Vero, a 15-year-old girl, writer and compulsive liar as she plots various bids for freedom, all of which are thwarted by her savvy mother. The film rights have been snapped up by Fandango, so look out for news of a future movie
Rushh.com
A brilliant example of the best in translated fiction: Leah Janeczko maintains the book's innate ambiguity and swerving nuance to produce one of the best novels in translation of recent years
New European
Absolutely fantastic. I'm often at a loss for what to say or how to even describe a book that envelops one as totally as this one did.
Author Veronica Raimo
Narrator Carlotta Brentan
Duration 4 hours and 55 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781405570596
Format Audiobook
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Genre Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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