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'Gripping' Daily Mail
'Chloe Lane's writing continues to astound me' Clare Fuller, author of The Memory of Animals
A searingly intimate exploration of marriage, motherhood and desire from a bold New Zealand talent.
Georgie’s marriage has stagnated. But in a Florida almost claustrophobic with life, there’s no room to attend to it: forests burn, termites abound, teeth break, and there’s something in her husband’s eye.
Then she finds a body in the woods.
As the repercussions of her discovery and a doomed affair come to land, Georgie is forced to confront her past, examining the often heartbreaking power of the things we witness and the scars they leave behind.
About the author
Chloe Lane is a writer and founding editor of Hue+Cry Press. She was the 2022 recipient of the Todd New Writer’s Bursary and a 2021 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellow. Her debut novel The Swimmers was longlisted for the Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2021 Ockham NZ Book Awards. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and young son.
Summary
'Gripping' Daily Mail
'Chloe Lane’s writing continues to astound me' Clare Fuller, author of The Memory of Animals
A searingly intimate exploration of marriage, motherhood and desire from a bold New Zealand talent.
Georgie’s marriage has stagnated. But in a Florida almost claustrophobic with life, there’s no room to attend to it: forests burn, termites abound, teeth break, and there’s something in her husband’s eye.
Then she finds a body in the woods.
As the repercussions of her discovery and a doomed affair come to land, Georgie is forced to confront her past, examining the often heartbreaking power of the things we witness and the scars they leave behind.
