Make Strange
From the winner of the Rooney Prize and the Sunday Times Short Story Award comes a shimmering, propulsive novel about a young couple whose four-year-old daughter claims to remember her own death 'DELIVERS NEW PLEASURES ON EVERY PAGE' ANNE ENRIGHT
'STYLISH, SHARP AND FIERCELY INTELLIGENT' LUCY CALDWELL
'A GLOWING, MOVING, DARING BOOK' SEĂN HEWITT
It begins on an orange afternoon, cool but ruminant, close to Halloween. Sunny, only four years old, looks up from the terrarium-sized tub of toys in the living room and asks, 'Mama, do you remember when I died?'
Over the course of the next strange, strained year, Sunny will refer repeatedly to her previous lives, and how they ended.
Her parents, Lena and Odhran - who rushed headfirst into family life after an accidental pregnancy and a hasty registry office wedding - are left desperate for answers.
Is their child suffering from disassociation, a psychological disorder, or something more? Has she been contaminated by their own haunted histories - by Lena's experiences as an indie musician in the era of sleaze, by a shady legacy of madness in Odhran's family? Can we ever really protect our children? What if we can't?
From the multi-award-winning author of This Happy and We Were Young, comes a shimmering, propulsive novel about maternal concern, childhood imagination, past lives and present loves.
From the winner of the Rooney Prize and the Sunday Times Short Story Award comes a shimmering, propulsive novel about a young couple whose four-year-old daughter claims to remember her own death 'DELIVERS NEW PLEASURES ON EVERY PAGE' ANNE ENRIGHT
'STYLISH, SHARP AND FIERCELY INTELLIGENT' LUCY CALDWELL
'A GLOWING, MOVING, DARING BOOK' SEĂN HEWITT
It begins on an orange afternoon, cool but ruminant, close to Halloween. Sunny, only four years old, looks up from the terrarium-sized tub of toys in the living room and asks, 'Mama, do you remember when I died?'
Over the course of the next strange, strained year, Sunny will refer repeatedly to her previous lives, and how they ended.
Her parents, Lena and Odhran - who rushed headfirst into family life after an accidental pregnancy and a hasty registry office wedding - are left desperate for answers.
Is their child suffering from disassociation, a psychological disorder, or something more? Has she been contaminated by their own haunted histories - by Lena's experiences as an indie musician in the era of sleaze, by a shady legacy of madness in Odhran's family? Can we ever really protect our children? What if we can't?
From the multi-award-winning author of This Happy and We Were Young, comes a shimmering, propulsive novel about maternal concern, childhood imagination, past lives and present loves.
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From the winner of the Rooney Prize and the Sunday Times Short Story Award comes a shimmering, propulsive novel about a young couple whose four-year-old daughter claims to remember her own death 'DELIVERS NEW PLEASURES ON EVERY PAGE' ANNE ENRIGHT
'STYLISH, SHARP AND FIERCELY INTELLIGENT' LUCY CALDWELL
'A GLOWING, MOVING, DARING BOOK' SEĂN HEWITT
It begins on an orange afternoon, cool but ruminant, close to Halloween. Sunny, only four years old, looks up from the terrarium-sized tub of toys in the living room and asks, 'Mama, do you remember when I died?'
Over the course of the next strange, strained year, Sunny will refer repeatedly to her previous lives, and how they ended.
Her parents, Lena and Odhran - who rushed headfirst into family life after an accidental pregnancy and a hasty registry office wedding - are left desperate for answers.
Is their child suffering from disassociation, a psychological disorder, or something more? Has she been contaminated by their own haunted histories - by Lena's experiences as an indie musician in the era of sleaze, by a shady legacy of madness in Odhran's family? Can we ever really protect our children? What if we can't?
From the multi-award-winning author of This Happy and We Were Young, comes a shimmering, propulsive novel about maternal concern, childhood imagination, past lives and present loves.
