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  • Published: 19 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241954423
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $24.00

Landfall





With echoes of Evie Wyld and the films of Sofia Coppola, Landfall marks the arrival of a significant new British talent for the 21st Century

What if one day you decided you'd had enough of your current life?

Alice Robinson, art critic for a magazine so fashionable it's just gone out of business, finds herself agreeing to housesit for her parents. Moving back home to a suburbia she thought long behind her, she finds herself reconnecting with a different landscape, a fraught and painful past.

For everywhere Alice turns she finds traces of her sister, who went missing as a teenager. Can she stop her old life intruding on the present? Should she even try? What does Alice's new future look like?

  • Published: 19 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241954423
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $24.00

Praise for Landfall

Quirky, compelling, unpredictable . . . layers peel away almost imperceptibly and the ending is surreal yet believable

The Times

A charming and compelling novel

Observer

For the most part it's an uplifting, witty tale, but the ending is wonderfully unsettling, forcing us to consider whether the guidelines we follow really will lead to a more satisfying life

Psychologies

Compulsively readable, with a silky smooth pace

Independent

A memorable novel. I loved the pace and verve of Alice's voyage from Shoreditch to suburbia, and the unexpectedness of the story as it swerves past the familiar into a dangerous and beautiful unknown

Helen Dunmore

An intriguing debut . . . Landfall takes a gratifying left field swerve

Metro

Written with pluck and humour

Independent

Beautifully descriptive, with a cliff-hanger finale

Easy Living