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Daisy Lafarge is a writer based in Glasgow. She is the author of the novel Paul (Granta 2021; Riverhead 2022), which won a Betty Trask Award and was a New York Times Editor's Choice, and the poetry collection Life Without Air (Granta 2020), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and awarded Scottish Poetry Book of the Year.
Her reviews and essays on ecology, art and literature have been widely published, appearing in Granta, LitHub, Wellcome Collection Stories, Art Review, TANK Magazine, The White Review, and elsewhere. In 2021 she completed a PhD at the University of Glasgow; her thesis focused on intimacy and infection. Lovebug, a short book on the poetics of infection, is forthcoming with Peninsula Press.
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Paul is a New York Times Editor's Choice novel about Frances, an English graduate student who flees a messy breakup by volunteering at a farm in rural France owned by the enigmatic Paul. As she is drawn into his world, the idyll gradually reveals a smoldering battle of wills that threatens to engulf her. Daisy Lafarge delivers a perceptive, incisive exploration of intimacy, power, and belonging.