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As a child, Gretel 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 Gretel works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary nature. But 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 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...
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Everything Under, Daisy Johnson
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- Released
- 2019
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- Title
- Everything Under
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Daisy Johnson
- Publisher
- F A Thorpe (Publishers)
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 300
- ISBN10
- 1785417053
- ISBN13
- 9781785417054
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, Contemporary Fiction, Death, Mythology, Memories, Past, Fear, Magical Realism, Search, Water, Dementia (Disease), Mothers and Daughters
- Rating
- 3.45 out of 5
- Description
- As a child, Gretel 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 Gretel works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary nature. But 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 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...