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Sour Fruit

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What to expect

'Feverish, devouring and provocative' LUCY ROSE, author of The Lamb

'Dark, sexy, addictive and beautifully written' KATE DAVIES, author of In at the Deep End

‘Hot, hungry and aching with desire, this book will bite down into you and it won't let go’ TOBI COVENTRY, author of He’s the Devil

Love can really eat you up

Avni is done with the meaningless carousel of tame sex. Tender women repel her. Clumsy men disgust her. She wants to make her flesh electric; to fill the chasm inside her created by her mundane job, her ex who died in a bizarre tragedy, and her sick aunt, whose diseased brain is swallowing memories.

Then there’s the sour fruit, the bad meat that she craves. She longs for something to make her feel full. Something beyond all the pointless sex and depravity.

When she is sucked into the orbit of a couple who seem as unstitched as she is, Avni thinks she may have found what she is looking for. But each time she fulfils her darkest needs her appetite grows, and she begins to spiral into obsession.

There's that bone-deep ache again. Is it love? Or a different kind of hunger?

Uncompromising, unique and compulsively readable, SOUR FRUIT is the fearless debut of a major new talent.

Critics Review

'Feverish, devouring and provocative, Sour Fruit is an all-consuming and stunningly vulgar novel about sex and personhood. Ahana Virdi writes the kind of unflinching desire that leaves us raw, unsettled, and utterly captivated. Carnal and vile – I absolutely loved it' LUCY ROSE, author of The Lamb
'Dark, sexy, addictive and beautifully written' KATE DAVIES, author of In at the Deep End
‘Hot, hungry and aching with desire, this book will bite down into you and it won't let go’ TOBI COVENTRY, author of He’s the Devil
'Not for the prudish or faint-hearted (Eliza Clark fans, preorder this one now!)' VOGUE
'Seductive, stomach-churning and studded with moments of pitch-black comedy… American Psycho for the 2020s' CLARE CAVENAGH, author of Tillinghast
Author Ahana Virdi
Narrator Tian Chaudhry
Duration 9 hours and 47 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9780008730741
Format Audiobook
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Genre Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Horror and supernatural fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Psychological thriller, Urban communities
Availability AU, GB, IE

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