Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award 2012. Nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Nominated for the Debut-Litzer Fiction Prize. An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2012 Editors' Pick. A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick for Summer 2012. A Chatelaine Magazine Top Five Books of 2012. A Georgia Straight Best Book of the Year 2012. An iTunes Canada Best of 2012 Fiction Pick.. A New Statesman Read-All-About-It Selection for 2012. A Salon What to Read 2012 Pick. A National Post Pick for Best Books of 2012. Mail on Sunday Novel of the Week. Our Woman refuses to be sunk by what life is about to serve her. She’s just caught her son Jimmy in the barn with another man. She’s been accosted by Red the Twit, who claims to have done the unmentionable with her husband. And now her son’s gone and joined the only group that will have him: an army division on its way to Afghanistan

Martin John is not keen on P words. He isolates P words from the newspapers into long lists. For you, so you know he's kept busy, so you don't have to worry he might be beside you or following you or thinking about your body parts. So you don't have to worry about what else he has been thinking about. From Anakana Schofield, the brilliant and unconventional author of Malarky, comes a dark, humorous and uncomfortable novel circuiting through the minds, motivations, and preoccupations of a character many women have experienced, but few up until now, have understood quite so well. The result confirms Schofield as one of the bravest and most innovative authors at work in English today