Description
Longlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction 2023, this unforgettable story follows a mother and daughter whose lives are upended when a charming new couple move in next door. Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly, in the house where she grew up. She does things more carefully than most people: on quiet days, she eats only white foods, uses an etiquette handbook to guide her through confusing social situations and escapes into her treasury of Sicilian folklore. The one thing beyond her control is Dolly, her clever and headstrong teenage daughter. Then Vita and Rollo arrive next door, disarm Sunday with their charm and proceed to break almost every rule in her book. Soon they are constantly in and out of each other’s homes, and Sunday feels loved and accepted as never before. But beneath Vita and Rollo’s polished exterior lies something darker. Behind Vita’s charm is a desperate, entitled ambition: to have a daughter just like Dolly, all to herself.
Information
Author: Lloyd-Barlow Viktoria
Language: English
Publication date: February 1, 2024
Manufacturer: Bohemian Ventures, spol. s r.o.
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Fiction in english, English novels
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 309
ISBN/EAN: 9781472288042