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Informationen zum Autor Daisy Johnson was born in 1990. Her debut short-story collection, Fen , was published in 2016. In 2018 she became the youngest author ever to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize with her debut novel Everything Under . She is the winner of the Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize, the A. M. Heath Prize and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She currently lives in Oxford by the river. Klappentext A new novel from the author of the Man Booker shortlisted "Everything Under". Two sisters, July and September move into an old family home with their mother Sheela, and find that that bonds between them change, as they experience strange noises and flickering lights. A literary horror novel inspired by Shirley Jackson and Stephen King. Zusammenfassung 'Daisy Johnson is the demon offspring of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King' Observer 'A gothic masterpiece. You can't stop reading' iNEWS Something unspeakable has happened to sisters July and September. Desperate for a fresh start, their mother Sheela moves them across the country to an old family house that has a troubled life of its own. Noises come from behind the walls. Lights flicker of their own accord. Sleep feels impossible, dreams are endless. In their new, unsettling surroundings, July finds that the fierce bond she's always had with September - forged with a blood promise when they were children - is beginning to change in ways she cannot understand. Taut, transfixing and profoundly moving, Sisters explodes with the fury and joy of adolescence. It is a story of sibling love and sibling envy that fans of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King will devour. 'Daisy Johnson is one of the best writers in this country ... an astonishing stylist. Sisters is a thumping good book, haunting, visceral and potent.' Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers 'A haunting, emotionally acute novel with a terrific twist.' Daily Mail ...
