Sour Fruit by Ahana Virdi #foliosociety Booker shortlisted author of Treacle

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Sour Fruit by Ahana Virdi #foliosociety Booker shortlisted author of Treacle'Feverish, devouring and provocative' LUCY ROSE, author of The Lamb 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 theres the sour fruit, the bad meat that she craves.