Ash

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Louise Wallace writes the excruciating and transformative with such precision it's almost impossible to believe. This is a razor-sharp novel: claustrophobic and expansive at once, full of terror and dark humour. -- Lottie Hazell, author of PIGLET ASH is equal parts premonition, fever dream, and love song. A sharp arrow puncturing the dreams and delusions of modern life. I got full body chills reading it, and was left filled with sorrow and longing -- Emma Pattee, author of TILT Louise Wallace is a keen observer of humanity. In Ash, she's created a memorable woman on the verge, a singular narrator in less-than-ideal circumstances: a chaotic schedule, an unjust workplace, a helpless husband, and a child that's fallen sick due to a sudden freak environmental disaster. New experiences call for new containers, new ways to tell a story. As poetic as it is experimental, Ash is one woman's bold attempt to create a novel way to talk about the unprecedented . . . a novel you'll consume in one sitting -- Katie Yee, author of MAGGIE; OR A MAN AND A WOMAN WALK INTO A BAR Profoundly unsettling, deeply enraging and unforgettable. ASH is bruising, beautiful and uncompromising in the way that it explores anger, anxiety, motherhood and womanhood. * Daisy Buchanan, author of CAREERING * What a book! Early motherhood, office politics and an actual volcano . . . it just destroyed me, in the best possible way -- Marianne Levy, author of DON'T FORGET TO SCREAM