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Sour Fruit

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Feverish, devouring and provocative — LUCY ROSE, author of The Lamb Dark, sexy, addictive and beautifully written — KATE DAVIES, author of In at the Deep End Hot, hungry and aching with desire, this book will bite down into you and it won't let go —... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Feverish, devouring and provocative — LUCY ROSE, author of The Lamb

Dark, sexy, addictive and beautifully written — KATE DAVIES, author of In at the Deep End

Hot, hungry and aching with desire, this book will bite down into you and it won't let go — TOBI COVENTRY, author of He’s the Devil

Love can really eat you up

Avni is done with the meaningless carousel of tame sex. Tender women repel her. Clumsy men disgust her. She wants to make her flesh electric; to fill the chasm inside her created by her mundane job, her ex who died in a bizarre tragedy, and her sick aunt, whose diseased brain is swallowing memories.

Then there’s the sour fruit, the bad meat that she craves. She longs for something to make her feel full. Something beyond all the pointless sex and depravity.

When she is sucked into the orbit of a couple who seem as unstitched as she is, Avni thinks she may have found what she is looking for. But each time she fulfils her darkest needs, her appetite grows, and she begins to spiral into obsession.

There's that bone-deep ache again. Is it love? Or a different kind of hunger?

Uncompromising, unique and compulsively readable, Sour Fruit is the fearless debut of a major new talent.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780008730727

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 April 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: The Borough Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 304

About the Author

Like her protagonist, Ahana Virdi is a queer British woman of Indian origin, where the similarities with her character end. She graduated from King's College London with a B.A. in History. When she's not writing, she works as a financial analyst, wrangling with the ever-frustrating world of spreadsheets.

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