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Everything Under

Everything Under 1

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018

by Daisy Johnson
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/07/2018
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**Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018**

Words are important to Gretel, always have been.

As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. She hasn't seen her mother since the age of sixteen, though - almost a lifetime ago - and those memories have faded. Now she works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary nature.

A phone call from the hospital interrupts Gretel's isolation and throws up questions from long ago. She begins to remember the private vocabulary of her childhood. She remembers other things, too: the wild years spent on the river; the strange, lonely boy who came to stay on the boat one winter; and the creature in the water - a canal thief? - swimming upstream, getting ever closer. In the end there will be nothing for Gretel to do but go back.

Daisy Johnson's electrifying debut novel turns classical myth on its head and takes readers to a modern-day England unfamiliar to most. As daring as it is moving, Everything Under is a story of family and identity, of fate, language, love and belonging that leaves you unsettled and unstrung.

ISBN:
9781910702345
9781910702345
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
15-07-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
222x144x27mm
Weight:
0.39kg
Daisy Johnson

Daisy Johnson was born in 1990. Her debut short-story collection, Fen, was published in 2016. In 2018 she became the youngest author ever to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize with her debut novel Everything Under.

She is the winner of the Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize, the A. M. Heath Prize and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She currently lives in Oxford by the river.

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While I appreciate the literary importance of this novel, the blurb is a little misleading. This novel had nothing to offer me, as the reader. I think most of us have 'Mother Issues' in one form or another, but these are to the extreme from child to adult bordering on abandonment and abuse. I can't recommend.

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