Freshly longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016, US novelist Ottessa Moshfegh has been hailed as 'an unforgettable new American voice' by the Los Angeles Times.

The Boston born writer first gained recognition with her short stories in the Paris Review, before penning her critically acclaimed debut novel Eileen, published by Jonathan Cape. The New England-set book follows a woman who takes care of her alcoholic father by night and works at a prison by day, getting romantically involved with a charismatic new social worker. Moshfegh's Eileen has already won the prestigious 40th PEN/Hemingway Award, and is set for international success thanks to the Booker nomination and film rights bought by Scott Rudin - producer of No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood.