- Booker Prize 2018 · Shortlist
Everything Under
Everything Under
Daisy Johnson (born 1990)
English editions
Written in EnglishEverything Under
Vintage · United Kingdom · 6 June 2024 · Paperback · 272 pages
Everything Under
Jonathan Cape · United Kingdom · 12 July 2018 · Hardcover · 272 pages
Everything Under
Graywolf Press · United States · October 2018 · Paperback · 280 pages
* Affiliate link. As an Amazon Associate and a Bookshop.org affiliate I earn from qualifying purchases. The price stays the same for you.
Gretel writes dictionary entries for a living, and words have always mattered to her. After a long search she finds her mother, Sarah, who left her to foster care sixteen years earlier and is now losing her memory. As they come together again, Gretel recalls the private language of her childhood and the wild years the two of them spent on a houseboat on the canals around Oxford; Marcus, an odd, solitary boy who spent one winter with them while running from a prophecy; and the Bonak, a creature in the river that stood for whatever they were afraid of. Reworking an ancient Greek myth, the novel moves between past and present as long-buried secrets surface.
AI-generated summary
About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United Kingdom
- First published
- 2018
- Author's age
- 28 when first published
- ISBN
-
9781910702345 (Jonathan Cape, United Kingdom)
9781555978266 (Graywolf Press, United States)
9781784702113 (Vintage, United Kingdom)
- More
- Wikidata