After an impulsive affair with his student sours, David Lurie retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. He and Lucy become victims of a disturbing attack which brings into relief all their faultlines.
Accolades
Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1999.
Winner of Commonwealth Writers Prize 2000.
Shortlisted for W H Smith Annual Literary Award 2000.
