I Will Crash
Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize
Published on 2. July 2024
256 pages
978-0-571-35677-5 (ISBN)
Description
'Completely immersive.' NATASHA BROWN
'Essential and startling.' COLIN BARRETT
'Compelling and poignant.' GLAMOUR
'Deeply mesmeric.' MICHAEL MAGEE
'Pacy and original.' Times Literary Supplement
It was a peace offering, I knew that
you don't appear on someone's doorstep uninvited, saying Alright
unless you want to make amends
It's been six years since Rosa last saw her brother. Six years since they last spoke. Six years since they last fought. Six years since she gave up on the idea of having a brother.
She's spent that time carefully not thinking about him. Not remembering their childhood. Not mentioning those stories, even to the people she loves.
Now the distance she had so carefully put between them has collapsed. Can she find a way to make peace - to forgive, to be forgiven - when the past she's worked so hard to contain threatens to spill over into the present?
From the acclaimed author of little scratch, this is a moving, powerfully honest novel about how we love, how we grieve and how we forgive.
'Essential and startling.' COLIN BARRETT
'Compelling and poignant.' GLAMOUR
'Deeply mesmeric.' MICHAEL MAGEE
'Pacy and original.' Times Literary Supplement
It was a peace offering, I knew that
you don't appear on someone's doorstep uninvited, saying Alright
unless you want to make amends
It's been six years since Rosa last saw her brother. Six years since they last spoke. Six years since they last fought. Six years since she gave up on the idea of having a brother.
She's spent that time carefully not thinking about him. Not remembering their childhood. Not mentioning those stories, even to the people she loves.
Now the distance she had so carefully put between them has collapsed. Can she find a way to make peace - to forgive, to be forgiven - when the past she's worked so hard to contain threatens to spill over into the present?
From the acclaimed author of little scratch, this is a moving, powerfully honest novel about how we love, how we grieve and how we forgive.
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Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Fixed format
File size
1,40 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-571-35677-5 (9780571356775)
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Rebecca Watson is the author of little scratch, which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize. She is one of the Observer's 10 best debut novelists of 2021. Her work has been published in the TLS, the Guardian, Granta and elsewhere. In 2018, she was shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize. She works part-time as Assistant Arts Editor at the Financial Times and lives in London.
