Beast

The hotly anticipated new novel from the Women's Prize for Fiction longlisted author of Salt Lick

Beast explores how dreams and desires can both liberate or confine the dreamer. Eve, a young self-taught musician sits on a bench overlooking the grassy crossroads of a model village. She is dreaming of the power of music. Her dreams reach into the cosmos, summoning Demon and his rabbit familiar. 

Beast explores how dreams and desires can both liberate or confine the dreamer. Eve, a young self-taught musician sits on a bench overlooking the grassy crossroads of a model village. She is dreaming of the power of music. Her dreams reach into the cosmos, summoning Demon and his rabbit familiar.

Eve longs to harness the divine in service of her music. But will she instead make a deal with Demon for worldly success? Demon dreads the terrible price he will pay for failure and thus begins a long battle for Eve’s soul.