‘Plunging you into the unique psyche of its narrator, this debut is told with hilarious destabilising frankness and attention to detail . . . A triumph of striking language and observation’ THE BOOKSELLER

'Yes, Offseason is hilarious, eccentric and gleefully mean-spirited, but just when you think you know what Sharp is doing, she will shatter your heart. I haven't read something so incisive, so slyly tender in years.' LISA McINERNEY

‘Ottessa Moshfegh meets Yorgos Lanthimos, Offseason simmers with wit and elegance. It’s a startling fever dream of a novel. When Avigayl Sharp writes, it is impossible to look away’ LUCY ROSE, author of The Lamb

‘A bonkers and beautifully written novel about family, frigidity, and the world's most inappropriate crush on Iosif Stalin. Absorbing and original’ NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS, author of Fundamentally

‘How does one describe a book as indescribably brilliant as Offseason? It is no less than a contour map of one woman on planet Earth, from the innermost workings of her mind and soul to her unruly body to the hilarious and hostile world around her. It is profound and uproarious, exciting and thought-provoking, unafraid and original, genuinely dark and yet also genuinely joyful. You've never read anything like it’ ELIZABETH McCRACKEN, author of The Hero of This Book

‘An obscenely good and very funny debut about the black hole of building your identity around the worst things that have ever happened to you. Unhinged in the best way’ CATHERINE LACEY, author of The Möbius Book

‘To let us see the world reinvented through the eyes of a narrator who makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar, to have us laugh at what is painful and feel compassion when the narrator is lighting firecracker sentences to get us to look elsewhere—this is the eternal promise of the literary first novel. In Offseason, Avigayl Sharp fulfils that promise, amply, and with art and wit’ MICHAEL CHABON, author of Moonglow

‘I am a wholesale fan of Avigayl Sharp’s fiction. Offseason, full of voice, reads like Sharp's been writing novels for years. Fierce, disciplined observations leap through this unforgettable story of departure and return in an America that has become unrecognisable even to the girls Sharp's narrator attempts to teach. Hilariously deadpan, mordantly sardonic, Offseason is a knockout debut' JESSICA ANTHONY, author of The Most