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Awake Awake: the new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of Elmet
Fiona Mozley
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'An incredible achievement, a story of friendship, memory, loss, and moral duty unlike any I've read before' Dina Nayeri, author of The Ungrateful Refugee
Mary is struggling with her memory. She does not have too few recollections but too many, including some that are downright absurd. She has many memories of her childhood: going to parties and on school trips, walks with her father and family dinners. She remembers world events too: the falling of the Twin Towers and the Iraq War. But the most concerning memories she has are about her Jewish grandfather and his role in the death of Adolf Hitler. She feels sure - almost completely sure - that what she has been told can't be true, that she must have imagined the whole thing. But there is a doubt.
To decipher fact from fiction, Mary goes back over her life, sorting through her childhood and adolescence with her three friends in York, through an adulthood accustomed to tragedy. Guided by her family and friends, Mary attempts to figure out what is real, both in history and her own life, all the while wondering if her mind has conjured everything.
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Praise for Awake Awake: the new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of Elmet
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Praise for Fiona Mozley - .If Elmet announced the arrival of a bright new voice in British literature, Hot Stew confirms Mozley as a writer of extraordinary empathic gifts - ObserverA gripping novel bursting with life. The second novel by the Booker-shortlisted novelist is a real treat - Sunday TimesMozley is a skillful writer. Her debut, Elmet, earned her a place on the Booker Prize shortlist and the reason for that is on full display here - Irish IndependentA dazzling Dickensian tale . . . In an age when so many novelists of Mozley's generation take refuge in the dystopian, she has reinvigorated large-scale social realism for our times - Guardian, Book of the Day
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