Synopsis
'This is an extraordinary book. It moves in and around you like a ghost. I feel lucky to have experienced it' -- Daisy Johnson - author of Everything Under
In the archives of the national library, a researcher named Linda sees a nine year-old girl's face in the pages of a yellowed newspaper, and the seed of an obsession is planted...
In the archives of the national library, a researcher named Linda sees a nine year-old girl's face in the pages of a yellowed newspaper, and the seed of an obsession is planted...
Details
25 April 2024304 pages
9781804185742Imprint: Ithaka
Reviews
'This is an extraordinary book. It moves in and around you like a ghost. I feel lucky to have experienced it'Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under
'Brilliant. Incisive and unique, sometimes sad, but always clear-sighted and gripping'Sara Baume
'Thoroughly researched and philosophically vigorous, it is an alarmingly compulsive read'Alice Kinsella, The Irish Times
'Linda Segtnan audaciously faces her own worst fears as a mother in a book at once devastatingly moving, rigorously thoughtful and sweepingly ambitious'Lara Feigel, author of The Bitter Taste of Victory