Everything under [text(large print)]
Johnson, Daisy, 1990-2019
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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 [text(large print)] / Daisy Johnson.
Author:
Johnson, Daisy, 1990-, author
Imprint:
Oxford : ISIS, 2019.
Collation:
300 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Standard print edition originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2018.
ISBN:
9781785417054 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2525516