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What happens when we stop idolising the generations above us? Stop idolising our own parents?What happens when we become frightened of the generations below us? Frightened of our own children?The Aeolian islands, 2010. Sophia, on the cusp of adulthood, spends a long hot summer with her father in Sicily. There she falls in love for the first time. There she works as her father's amanuensis, typing the novel he dictates, a story about sex and ge...

A novel about a father and a daughter. About a Sicilian holiday that hangs over their relationship. About who gets to tell the story of it. About how the younger generation views the older. About whether one should or should not bite one's tongue out of love.

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A piercing howl of a novel about one young woman's endless quest for an apartment of her own and the aspirations and challenges faced by the millennial generation as it finds its footing in the world, from a shockingly talented debut author "A woman must have money and a room of her own." So said Virginia Woolf in her classic A Room of One's Own, but in this scrupulously observed, gorgeously wrought, debut novel, Jo Hamya pushes that adage p...

Cool, sharp and perceptive.' Stylist'I was bowled over by this barbed, supple book...spiky, unsettling.' OLIVIA LAINGWhat is the true cost of living as a young person in 21st-century England?It's autumn 2018 and a young woman moves into a rented room in university accommodation, ready to begin a job as a research assistant at Oxford. Here, living and working in the spaces that have birthed the country's leaders, she is both outsider and inside...

A piercing howl of a novel and "a tart pleasure...with echoes of Zadie Smith and Sally Rooney, " about one young woman's endless quest for an apartment of her own and the aspirations and challenges faced by the Millennial generation as it finds its footing in the world, from a shockingly talented debut author (Kirkus, starred review). "A woman must have money and a room of one's own." So said Virginia Woolf in her classic A Room of One's Own,...

A piercing howl of a novel and "a tart pleasure...with echoes of Zadie Smith and Sally Rooney, " about one young woman's endless quest for an apartment of her own and the aspirations and challenges faced by the Millennial generation as it finds its footing in the world, from a shockingly talented debut author (Kirkus, starred review). "A woman must have money and a room of one's own." So said Virginia Woolf in her classic A Room of One's Own,...

From a major new voice in fiction, an incisive and poignant debut about politics, race and belonging in 21st-century EnglandHow do you change from place to place? It's autumn 2018 and a young woman moves into a rented room in university accommodation, ready to begin a job as a research assistant at Oxford. Here, living and working in the spaces that have birthed the country's leaders, she is both outsider and insider, and she can't shake the f...

Driven by despair and optimism in equal measure, the novel poignantly explores politics, race and belonging, as Jo Hamya asks us to consider the true cost of living as a young person in 21st-century England. 'A stunning achievement .