Last Things Av Jenny Offill

<p><b>_______________</b><br><br><b>''Unexpectedly funny''<i> - New York Times</i></b><br><br><b>''Full of imagination,</b><b> humour and invention ... A glorious debut</b><b>'' - <i>Irish Times</i></b><br><br><b>''Mesmerising ... </b><b>She writes with a heartbreaking clarity ... and is dexterously able to evoke emotional extremity through pitch-perfect narrative compression</b><b>'' - <i>The Times</i></b><br><b>_______________</b><br><br><b>THE EXQUISITE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF <i>WEATHER</i>, SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020</b><br><br>To eight-year-old Grace Davitt, her mother, Anna, is a puzzling yet wonderful mystery. This is a woman who has seen a sea serpent in the lake, who paints a timeline of the universe on the sewing-room wall, and who teaches her daughter a secret language which only they can speak. <br><br>For Grace''s father, however, the only truth is science, and increasingly he finds himself shut out by Anna as she draws Grace deeper and deeper into a strange world of myth and obsession.<br><b>_______________</b><br><b><br>Selected as a Book of the Year in <i>Guardian</i>, <i>Telegraph</i>, <i>Observer</i>, <i>Irish Times</i> and <i>New York Times</i></b><br><br><b>''The charisma and damage of madness lend a desperate glamour'' </b><i>- Elle</i><br><b>''A gem of a book''</b><i> - Tatler</i><br><b>''Brilliantly captures the confusion of childhood'' </b><i>- Red</i></p>