' Everything Under grabbed me from the first page and wouldn't let me go. Johnson's affinity for the natural world is extraordinary.' - Jeff VanderMeer, The Guardian Blending a deep understanding of character and storytelling examination. beautifully creepy and affecting.' - Rebecca Nicholson, Observer 'The kind of book that worms its way into your brain, leaving echoes of its story and world long after it is back on the shelf. Daisy Johnson writes in a torrent of language as unrelenting and turbulent and dark as the river at the book's heart dive in for just a moment and you'll emerge gasping and haunted.' - Celeste Ng 'Saturated in mythology and fairy tales, Everything Under is weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling. Publisher: Vintage Publishing ISBN: 9781784702113 Number of pages: 272 Weight: 191 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 17 mm MEDIA REVIEWS 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. In the end there will be nothing for Gretel to do but go back.ĭaisy Johnson's debut novel turns classical myth on its head and takes readers to a modern-day England unfamiliar to most. 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.
She begins to remember the private vocabulary of her childhood. Now Gretel works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary nature.Ī phone call from the hospital interrupts Gretel's isolation and throws up questions from long ago. She hasn't seen her mother since the age of sixteen, though - almost a lifetime ago - and those memories have faded. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. Words are important to Gretel, always have been.
'Daisy Johnson is a new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction.' - Lauren Groff Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018
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