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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