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Sofia works in a London coffee shop and has left her doctoral studies to look after her mother, Rose, whose paralysis no doctor has explained. They travel to a coastal village in Almería, in southern Spain, where Rose is to be treated by Dr Gomez, a charismatic man whose methods and motives are open to question. In the heat, among half-built hotels, Sofia grows bolder: she is stung by jellyfish, falls under the spell of Ingrid, a seamstress, and pushes back against her mother's hold on her. She also visits her estranged father in Athens, where he has started a second family. Through mother and daughter the novel looks at the strange, sometimes monstrous sides of womanhood.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Spain, Greece

First published

2016

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9781620406694 (Bloomsbury, United States)

9780241968031 (Penguin, United Kingdom)

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