For Adults
Faber are offering 3 lucky library book clubs the chance to win a set of up to 10 finished copies each of The Left and the Lucky by American author Willy Vlautin for their next club meeting. Equal parts heart-wrenching and uplifting, this book tells the story of a young boy in danger of slipping through society’s cracks and the unlikely father figure who takes him under his wing.
To enter, please contact phoebe.williams@faber.co.uk and let us know why you think your group would enjoy reading The Left and the Lucky. This offer will expire on *Sunday 31 May * and copies will be sent out at the start of June.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Eddie Wilkens runs his own house-painting business. Forty-something and living alone, he just wants to take life one day at a time. When his eight-year-old neighbour, Russell, starts hanging around, Eddie sees that this small kid – with his single mother working nights and his violent older brother – is struggling to keep his head above water, and so tries to help.
The Left and the Lucky is a portrait of this unusual friendship – the ways hurt shatters people and the compassionate acts that can, maybe, hold some of those pieces together.
‘Brimming with compassion and hard-won tenderness… the sort of novel you eagerly press into the hands of those you love.’ COLIN WALSH
‘Vlautin’s novels give dignity and a voice to the disenfranchised. Right now his country needs him more than ever.’ THE SPECTATOR
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Willy Vlautin has published seven previous novels, most recently The Horse, which won the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Award. The Motel Life and Lean on Pete were both turned into acclaimed feature films, in 2012 and 2017, the latter of which was directed by Andrew Haigh. Netflix’s adaptation of The Night Always Comes is set for release in Autumn ‘25 starring Vanessa Kirby. Vlautin lives outside of Portland, Oregon and is the founding member of the bands Richmond Fontaine and The Delines.
