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Everything under / Daisy Johnson.

by Johnson, Daisy, 1990-

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Jonathan Cape, 2018.

Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.

Lexicographers -- Fiction.

Canal-boats -- Fiction.

Canals -- England -- Fiction.

England -- Fiction.

9781910702345 (hc.)

263 p. ; 22 cm.

"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. 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." -- Provided by publisher.

Domestic fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Literary fiction.

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