Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies
They propose that we need to learn to work differently so we are more focused
Victorian England to modern-day Japan
and an impassioned attempt to come to terms with humanity itself as it struggles to escape from foreign domination
I want to read everything Holly Bourne has written now'' ROSIE WALSH
Love and Vertigo, Hsu Ming-Teo autofiction Lauren Groff returns with herFor the first time in my life, I saw my mother in relation to her family, and I didn't recognise her any more . . . These Singaporean roots of hers, this side of herand possibly of me toowere unacceptable. I was determined not to belong, not to fit in, because I was Australian, and Mum ought to be Australian too. The tug of her roots, the blurring of her role from wife and mother to sister and aunt, angered me. On the eve of her mother's wake, Grace