Buy Books, Subscriptions and Tickets

Author: Hamya, Jo

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 25 April 2024 by Orion Publishing Co (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 240 pages
145 x 227 x 24 | 358g

What happens when we stop idolising the generations above us? Stop idolising our own parents?What happens when we become frightened of the generations below us? Frightened of our own children?The Aeolian islands, 2010. Sophia, on the cusp of adulthood, spends a long hot summer with her father in Sicily. There she falls in love

for the first time. There she works as her father’s amanuensis, typing the

novel he dictates, a story about sex and gender divides. There, their

relationship fractures.

London, Summer 2020. Sophia’s father, a 61-year-old novelist who does not feel himself to be a bad or outdated person sits in a large theatre, surrounded by strangers, watching his daughter’s first play. A play that takes that Sicilian holiday is its subject. A play that will force him to watch his

purported crimes play out in front of him.