Win Heatwave by Victor Jestin and a hamper full of French treats

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Win Heatwave by Victor Jestin and a hamper full of French treats

By Promotions Team

Updated 4 years ago

Brought to you by Scribner

Oscar is dead because I watched him die and did nothing…

Stylist has teamed up with Scribner publishers to offer one lucky winner the chance to win Heatwave by Victor Jestin and a ‘Best of France’ hamper which includes condiments, preserves and ingredients that celebrate French cuisine.    


Winner of the Prix de la vocation 2019.

Winner of the Prix Femina de lycéens 2019.

Translated by Sam Taylor, translator of Lullaby by Leila Slimani, The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker and HHhH by Laurent Binet.

Leonard is an outsider, a seventeen-year-old uncomfortable in his own skin who is forced to endure a family camping holiday in the South of France. Tired of awkwardly creeping out of beach parties after only a couple of beers, he chooses to spend the final Friday night of the trip in bed. However, when he cannot sleep due to the sound of wild carousing outside his tent, he gets up and goes for a walk.

As he wanders among the dunes, he sees Oscar, one of the cooler kids, drunk in a playground, hanging by his neck from the ropes of a swing. Frozen into inaction, he watches Oscar struggle to breathe until finally his body comes loose and falls lifeless to the ground.

Told over the space of a long weekend, this intense and brilliant novel is the story of an adolescent struggling to fit in. Heatwave is a gripping psychological thriller that poses the existential question:

Is doing nothing sometimes the very worst thing you can do?

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UK18+ only. Normal exclusions apply. Opens: 22/07/21. Closes: 05/08/21 at 23:59. x1 prize winner will receive 1x hardback copy of Heatwave by Victor Jestin plus 1x The Best of France Hamper. One entry per person. Winners randomly selected and notified by email within 14 days of the closing date. Full terms and conditions upon entry. Promoter: The Stylist Group. Supplier: Simon & Schuster.

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