Tiger, Tiger by Margaux Fragoso

Powerfully heartfelt, full of love and despair, Tiger, Tiger is a book with astonishing talk-about-ability. It will be published next year in twenty countries

'I still think about Peter, the man I loved most in the world, all the time ... We were friends, soul mates and lovers. I was seven. He was fifty-one'

It will be published this year in twenty countries
This will be a global publication. Tiger, Tiger sold to prestigious publishing houses around the world
''Tiger, Tiger will start a thousand conversations. It is shocking, revelatory and fearless. As the story of a victim, it is gripping; as a work of literature, it's a triumph'' Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones
'Margaux Fragoso's memoir, a subtly crafted account of her 15-year involvement as a child and adolescent with a middle-aged man, asks urgent questions about the traffic between memory and art.' Boyd Tonkin, Ones to Watch in 2011, The Independent

I still think about Peter, the man I loved most in the world, all the time.

At two in the afternoon, when he would come and pick me up and take me for rides; at five, when I would read to him, head on his chest; in the despair at seven p.m., when he would hold me and rub my belly for an hour; in the despair again at nine p.m. when we would go for a night ride, down to the Royal Cliffs Diner in Englewood Cliffs where I would buy a cup of coffee with precisely seven sugars and a lot of cream. We were friends, soul mates and lovers.

I was seven. He was fifty-one.