Everything under
Johnson, Daisy, 1990-2019
Large Print
As a child, Gretel 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 sixteen, though - almost a lifetime ago - and those memories have faded. Now Gretel works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary nature. But 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 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...
Main title:
Everything under / Daisy Johnson.
Author:
Johnson, Daisy, 1990-, author
Work:
Edition:
Large print edition.
Imprint:
Leicester : Thorpe, Isis, 2019.
Collation:
300 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Audience:
Adult.
ISBN:
97817854170541785417053
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
354236