![]() ![]() "Daisy Johnson is a genius." (Jeff VanderMeer) "Surprising, gorgeously written, and profoundly unsettling, this genderfluid retelling of Oedipus Rex will sink into your bones and stay there." (Carmen Maria Machado) To read Daisy Johnson is to have that rare feeling of meeting an author you’ll read for the rest of your life." (Evie Wyld) "Everything Under grabbed me from the first page and wouldn’t let me go. I cannot wait to see what she does next." (Sara Taylor, author of The Shore) The echoes between stories give the collection a wonderfully satisfying cohesion, so that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. "I've been working my way slowly through Fen and not wanting it to end - Daisy marries realism to the uncanny so well that the strangest turnings ring as truth. ![]() Meanwhile, hold your breath against the certainty it surely is. "Reading the stories brought the sense of being trapped in a room, slowly, but very surely, filling up with water. "There is big, dangerous vitality herein - this book marks the emergence of a great, stomping, wall-knocking talent" (Kevin Barry) "Within these magical, ingenious stories lies all of the angst, horror and beauty of adolescence. She was the winner of the Edge Hill award for a collection of short stories and the AM Heath Prize. She has been longlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award and the New Angle Award for East Anglian writing. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Everything Under, her debut novel. The author of Sisters (2020) Everything Under (2018) and Fen (2016). ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |