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"Checkout 19" by Claire-Louise Bennett is a mesmerizing novel about the stories that defines our life. A woman revisits they key moments that have formed her life with a fierce imagination. Her crush on a teacher as well as peculiar stories from
The things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all shes left behind. The most insistent are those of Xavier, who has al
Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and horrifyi
"A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut ... Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. ... [It]reminds us that small things have great depths."-New York Times Book Review "Dazzling...exquisitely written and daring
I en arbejderby et sted vest for London skriver en pige små historier bagerst i sin skolebog, fortryllet af fantasiens evne til at skabe liv. Hun bliver ældre, og alle omkring hende og alt, hvad hun læser, bliver til benzin på det bål, som er hendes store
"... uforklarligt tryllebindende. Bennetts prosa har en hypnotisk effekt; siderne flyver forbi, der er noget næsten fænomenologisk over hendes ligefremme, men omhyggeligt udformede sprog." Weekendavisen En kvinde konfronterer intimitetens efter
"Gorgeous and a little unnerving. . .Reading it is a strange and wonderfully invigorating experience."- The New York Times A woman confronts the afterlife of intimacy, in a deeply tender novel by one of our most acclaimed and inventive fiction w