Everything under

Resource Information

The work Everything under represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Everything under

Statement of responsibility

Daisy Johnson

Creator

• trueJohnson, Daisy, 1990-

Author

• trueJohnson, Daisy, 1990-

Subject

• Lexicographers -- Fiction
• Mental illness -- Fiction
• England -- Fiction
• Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
• Gender identity disorders -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Words are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. She hasn't seen her mother since the age of sixteen, though almost a lifetime ago and those memories have faded. Now she works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary nature. A phone call from the hospital interrupts Gretel's isolation and throws up questions from long ago. She begins to remember the private vocabulary of her childhood. She remembers other things, too - the wild years spent on the river; the strange, lonely boy who came to stay on the boat one winter; and the creature in the water, a canal thief, swimming upstream, getting ever closer. In the end there will be nothing for Gretel to do but go back. Daisy Johnson's electrifying debut novel turns classical myth on its head and takes readers to a modern-day England unfamiliar to most. As daring as it is moving, Everything Under is a story of family and identity, of fate, language, love and belonging that leaves you unsettled and unstrung

Cataloging source

SALS

Index

no index present

Literary form

novels

Target audience

adult