Armadillos

'A truly stunning debut.' -- Matt Bendoris 'Armadillos is a book about journeys that have to be made with outcomes that can't be predicted. P.K. Lynch can tell a story as deep as a wound. A new writer unafraid of the pain scars and not scared by beauty either. Read this one.' -- Jeanette Winterson (author) 'Armadillos, as the name suggests, has a tough, often shocking, carapace of violence and exploitation, but at its core there is revealed a plangent melancholy and a warm beating heart.' -- Laura Marney (author) 'A brilliant first novel: pacy and un-put-downable. The story of a survivor - shocking, frightening, but also moving and bursting with life.' -- Vicky Feaver (poet) 'On the rarest of occasions, we see a prose author who writes sentences with the precision of a poet. Lynch has that gift, constructing lines that make me salivate... Funny, dangerous and acerbic.' -- Joshua Mohr (author) 'A raw, uneasy and beautiful read. The young and quick-witted Aggie has quite a story to tell: Lynch, through a vivid imagination and writing to match it, brings this young girl, the land, and people around her fully to life.' -- E.K. Reeder (author 'What a marvellous, dark-hearted, remarkable work. It lit my heart up... easily my favourite read in the last year by a country mile.' -- Sandy Thompson (artistic director) 'This is a sharp coming-of-age novel ripped straight from the American heartland. Aggie is a true hero for our time.' -- Thomas Legendre (author) 'Just wonderful, haunting, real... out of reach and in the bones... it's going to be so read by a generation of readers.' -- Fiona Shaw (actress, theatre and opera director) 'Powerful, gritty, and deals with some hard-hitting issues. A gut-wrenching, important book.' -- Doctyl Zine 'Every line is beautifully expressed and written with such vividness, importance and passion. A marvellous debut.' -- Roy Williams OBE (playwright) 'Filled with emotional chemistry... the prose is beautiful but the drama harrowing, which Lynch presents compellingly.' -- Ruby McCann (chair)