Everything Under

by Daisy Johnson

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018**

**A New York Times Notable Book 2018**

'Daisy Johnson is a new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction.'
Lauren Groff

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...

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  • ISBN10 191070234X
  • ISBN13 9781910702345
  • Publish Date 12 July 2018
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 22 March 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Vintage Publishing
  • Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 272
  • Language English