SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZE The dictionary doesn't contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when...
An eerie, watery reimagining of the Oedipus myth set on the canals of Oxford, from the author of Fen