Exit Management

“At minus five degrees, even the densest blood materials start to turn: the beginnings of a human heart will still into black ice.”

Callum has been given an opportunity: Jozsef’s house is the perfect place to live – plenty of room, a sought-after London location and filled with priceless works of art. All that Jozsef asks in return is for some company while he’s ill and the promise that if it all gets too much, someone will be there to help him at the end.

It’s fortunate then, when Callum meets Lauren who works in Human Resources and specialises in getting rid of people.

Jozsef welcomes them both inside, and so begins a deadly spiral of violence. Pushed ever onwards by the poison of ambition, and haunted by loses from the past, these characters are drawn together in a catastrophe of endings.

Naomi Booth’s second novel is a groundbreaking dissection of class, xenophobia and compassion. Exit Management will seize you in its cold hands and show you the dark heart within us all.

Author Biography

Naomi Booth is the author of two previous works of fiction: The Lost Art of Sinking and
Sealed. She was selected for New Writing North’s Read Regional campaign in 2017 and
she was named one of the Guardian’s Fifty Writers to Read Now in 2018. She is the
recipient of a Saboteur Award for Best Novella, and has been longlisted for the Sunday
Times EFG Short Story Award and the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. Her work
has also appeared in the New York Times, BBC Radio 3, and as part of the Audible
Original series Hag. She completed her PhD research on the literary history of swooning and
teaches at Durham University. She has spent most of her life in Yorkshire: she was born
in Bradford, grew up in Dewsbury, and now lives in York.