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Tag: Daisy Johnson

Sisters by Daisy Johnson – a gothic masterpiece for our times

23rd November 2020  Rebecca Clark

Daisy Johnson’s second novel, Sisters, is a haunting tale of sibling love and resentment, a gothic masterpiece brilliantly brought to life.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Books, Daisy Johnson, gothic, Jonathan Cape, Penguin, Review, Shirley Jackson, Sisters, Thriller

The Pisces by Melissa Broder – a beautiful, effervescent novel rooted in Greek myth

28th July 201930th July 2019  Victoria Smith

Longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2019, Melissa Broder’s The Pisces is a modern day fable about a woman who falls in love with a merman. Victoria Smith reviews Broder’s debut novel alongside her earlier poetry and essays, Last Sext and So Sad Today.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Anne Carson, Bloomsbury Fiction, Circe, Daisy Johnson, Everything Under, James Joyce, Last Sext, Madeline Miller, Margaret Atwood, Melissa Broder, Mythos, Pat Barker, So Sad Today, Stephen Fry, T. S. Eliot, The Pisces, the Pre-Raphaelites, The Silence of the Girls

Daisy Johnson’s Everything Under – a clever, murky retelling of the Oedipus myth

29th April 201930th April 2019  Victoria Smith

Daisy Johnson’s 2018 Man Booker-shortlisted novel, Everything Under, rewrites the Oedipus myth into a mother-daughter story set in an eerie, waterlogged world.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: A Thousand Acres, Anna Leszkiewicz, Brothers Grimm, Cambridge Literary Festival 2019, Daisy Johnson, Everything Under, Fen, Fiction, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology, Jane Smiley, Man Booker Prize, Novel, Oedipus, Penguin, Revolting Rhymes, Roald Dahl, Vintage
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