Dirt Music

<p><b>Shortlisted for the Booker Prize</b><br><br><b>‘Compelling’ – <i>The Independent</i></b><br><br><b>‘Beautiful’ – <i>The Sunday Telegraph</i></b><br><br>Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded with a man she doesn’t love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. She spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka and self-recrimination.<br><br>Until, early one morning, she sees a shadow drifting up the beach below her house. It is Luther Fox, an outcast, a man on the run from his own past. And now here he is stepping into Georgie’s life. He brings hope, maybe even love, but also danger . . .<br><br><b>Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature. </b></p>