American author Kathryn Scanlan has won this year’s Gordon Burn prize for her “desperately consumable” novel about horse training.
Kick the Latch is based on a series of interviews with Sonia, a horse trainer from the midwest. The novel is “a thundering achievement, liberated from hard lines of genre and form by a laser-focus on not just excavation, but building of voice,” said judging chair and journalist Terri White.
