Over the next six weeks leading up to the 2016 winner’s announcement, we’ll be featuring a sample from each book on this year’s brilliant shortlist. Next up is Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, a story of four classmates from a small Massachusetts college who move to New York to make their way: broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition.
Sit back, relax, kick off your shoes (maybe even pour yourself a cheeky Baileys) and enjoy the first chapter of A Little Life.
Tune into host Vick Hope and a line-up of incredible guests on our weekly podcast full of unmissable book recommendations.