Everything Under
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By Daisy Johnson
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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 Gretel 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.
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A beguiling, bewitching novel about the river people, living in their barges and boats and avoiding mainstream society as much as possible. It is so beautifully written with characters, places and situations painted in such a delicious way I felt I wanted to keep on reading and reading and not leave their enchanting world. Having said that, I always knew I was an outsider, a voyeur who could never be one of them. But I was also more than a little thankful for that. It had me totally engrossed from start to finish. Great read.
