History Keeps Me Awake at Night

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christy edwall

was born in South Africa in 1985 and now lives in Brighton. Her writing has appeared on Granta.com, and in Stinging Fly, the Southern Review and the TLS.

Christy Edwall

A smart, zeitgeisty debut, about a woman on the brink, that moves between actual London and virtual Mexico – for fans of Jenny Offill, Sheila Heti and Patricia Lockwood.

Margit is at the point in life when things should have cohered – but they haven’t. One day, a picture of 43 missing Mexican students catches her eye in a newspaper. And so begins Margit’s obsession with the desaparecidos. As she heads off down the rabbit holes and cul-de-sacs of Google Maps, this is a novel that captures the texture of life in a frictionless city with drop-pin accuracy, while asking: is it possible to recover what is lost without losing oneself?

FICTION £12.99 February Demy 216 × 135mm HB 256pp No Canada rights Serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 842 2