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Everything Under

By: Daisy Johnson
Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018

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 16, though - almost a lifetime ago - and those memories have faded. Now Gretel 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.

Daisy Johnson’s debut novel turns classical myth on its head and takes readers to a modern-day England unfamiliar to most. 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.

©2018 Daisy Johnson (P)2018 Audible, Ltd Family Life Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Magic Small Town & Rural

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"Daisy Johnson is a new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction." (Lauren Groff)
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I loved how this story was narrated, particularly how the characters were personified differently from the different points of view! The non-linear story was intriguing but it was all working toward a big finish, which, when you guess it after the first two hours means you have 5 hours of listening to a story unfold exactly as you know it will...

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