Flesh -**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025* -A ‘Best Book of 2025’ in the Guardian, Observer, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph

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**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025*

A masterpiece, told with virtuosic economy… Pure brilliance from the first to the (devastating) last sentence’ India Knight

‘Brilliance on every page’ Samantha Harvey’

‘Spare, visceral, urgent, compelling. This book doesn’t f**k around’ Gary Stevenson

‘So brilliant and wise on chance, love, sex, money’ David Nicholls.

Through chance, luck and choice, one man’s life takes him from a modest apartment in Hungary to the elite society of London – in this captivating new novel about the forces that make and break our lives.

Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour – a married woman close to his mother’s age – as his only companion.

As these encounters shift into a clandestine relationship, István’s life spirals out of control. Years later, rising through the ranks from the army to the elite circles of London’s super-rich, he navigates the twenty-first century’s tides of money and power. Torn between love, intimacy, status, and wealth, his newfound riches threaten to undo him completely.

‘How do I get out of a reading slump? This is the book to do that’ Rhianna Dhillon, BBC Radio 4

‘A revelatory novel’ Sunday Times

‘So much searing insight into the way we live now’ Observer

‘Refreshing, illuminating and true’ Financial Times

‘Compelling and elegant, merciless and poignant’ Tessa Hadley

A ‘Best Book of 2025’ in the Guardian, Observer, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph.