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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy Fowler

From Shelf: Luke's blog (@Lukesblog1) asks "what book had the best twist in it that you've ever read?" Twitter answered:

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014By the author of worldwide bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club: you can't choose your family, but they can make choices for you. Big, life-defining choices. Winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 The Million Copy Best-Seller Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. So we're not going to tell you too much either: you'll have to find out for yourselves, round about page 77, what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other. Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone - vanished from her life. There's something unique about Rosemary's sister, Fern. And it was this decision, made by her parents, to give Rosemary a sister like no other, that began all of Rosemary's trouble. So now she's telling her story: full of hilarious asides and brilliantly spiky lines, it's a looping narrative that begins towards the end, and then goes back to the beginning. Twice. It's funny, clever, intimate, honest, analytical and swirling with ideas that will come back to bite you. We hope you enjoy it, and if, when you're telling a friend about it, you do decide to spill the beans about Fern - it's pretty hard to resist - don't worry. One of the few studies Rosemary doesn't quote says that spoilers actually enhance reading.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
336
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
ISBN:
9781846689666
Published Date:
19/6/2014
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm x 20mm
Weight:
281g
Category:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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ISBN: 9781846689666

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