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Book Review: My Heavenly Favourite is a nauseating but utterly fearless read
The Dutch writer Lucas Rijneveld outlines the mind of an abuser in claustrophobic detail in his difficult but compelling second novel
Having caused a stir with his first novel, The Discomfort of Evening, which won the 2020 International Booker Prize, Dutch writer Lucas Rijneveld (formerly Marieke Lucas Rijneveld) is back with a new book that is even more unsettling than its predecessor.
Given that Rijneveld’s debut covered the falling apart of an ultra-religious family on a rural farm in the Netherlands following the death of a child, it need hardly be said that its successor is ...
