Everything Under
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:7th Feb '19
Should be back in stock very soon
An electrifying debut novel from one of the most exciting new voices in contemporary fiction
'Weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling... Dive in for just a moment and you'll emerge gasping and haunted' Celeste Ng, bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere
It's been sixteen years since Gretel last saw her mother, half a lifetime to forget her childhood on the canals. But a phone call will soon reunite them, and bring those wild years flooding back: the secret language that Gretel and her mother invented; the strange boy, Marcus, living on the boat that final winter; the creature said to be underwater, swimming ever closer.
In the end there will be nothing for Gretel to do but to wade deeper into their past, where family secrets and aged prophesies will all come tragically alive again.
'As readable as it is dazzling, full of unsettling twists and dark revelations' Observer
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018**
Johnson attacks the Oedipus myth with a taste for gothic horror and a radical vision based on gender fluidity ... Her clever layering of ancient and modern makes for a disturbing take on the illusion of free will and the horrible things that women sometimes think and do. * The Times *
I was quite late into work because I couldn’t stop reading it. * Guardian Books Podcast *
A thrillingly bewildering reading experience. It often seems like you’re feeling your way submerged, from paragraph to paragraph, rather than safely strapped in for a conventionally neater narrative ride… What lurks beneath is literary fiction at its troublesome best. * Waterways World *
- Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2018 (UK)
ISBN: 9781784702113
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 19mm
Weight: 194g
272 pages