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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 Small Town & Rural Magic Thought-Provoking
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"Daisy Johnson is a new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction." (Lauren Groff)
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Exquisite use of language, almost poetic, but ultimately too confusing to take in in this format, especially if you listen at night. I will probably resort to the hard copy book form.

Beautiful but complicated.

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loved how this book is written. poetic, magical, the style draws you in. I did not have a problem following it or understanding the various layers of metaphor. the story is very dark but I could not stop listening to it. would definitely recommend.

beautiful and dark

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This book is beautifully written, with some really lovely and unusual descriptive phrases, which echo Gretel's job as a lexicographer. The narrator does a fantastic job of it too, it's totally immersive.

Such a good listen

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What a brilliant, terrible, disturbing, fascinating story. Beautifully read and so rich in details and language that I listened to it again immediately. A story that gripped and horrified me and will stay with me for a long time.

Bonak- Wow!

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Beautifully written and narrated. Lyrical imagery that draws upon the mythic and nature. Gives me plenty to think. about.

Powerful tale

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