My Absolute Darling

Synopsis of My Absolute Darling

«My Absolute Darling» is the debut novel by Gabriel Tallent, published by Riverhead Books in hardcover (432 pages, in English).

Fourteen-year-old Turtle Alveston grows up isolated in the forests of the northern California coast under the influence of her charismatic and tormented father, Martin. When she meets Jacob, a boy from school, she discovers friendship and affection, and begins to imagine an escape from her home using the survival skills her father taught her.

Gabriel Tallent's debut novel; nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize; one of the New York Times' 100 notable books of 2017.

For readers of contemporary fiction and coming-of-age novels with a young protagonist and an intense natural atmosphere.