Everything under.
Everything under.
By
:
Johnson, Daisy, 1990-
Publication Date
:
2018
Subject Term
:
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Canals -- England -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Geographic Term
:
England -- Fiction.
Summary
:
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. 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.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781910702345
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult Fic Softcover | Adult Fiction Softcover | FIC JOH | Checked In |
St. John's - Michael Donovan (SJB) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC JOH | Checked In |