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Rosalind Brown

'A strange and shimmering joy' Jon McGregor
'Entrancing' TLS
'A lot of fun' Helen Oyeyemi


In a small room in an Oxford college, at the worn-out end of January, Annabel works on an essay about Shakespeare.

She has a carefully considered plan for her day, but as the essay's deadline looms, so too does the urge to procrastinate and the insistent presence of other people.

Elaborate erotic fantasies, telephone calls from her boyfriend, family and friends who demand her attention, and darker crises, obliquely glimpsed - all these distractions threaten to disturb the much-cherished quiet in Annabel's mind.

'Exquisite' Mark Haddon
'Wonderful' Guardian
'Fascinating' Olivia Laing

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : AUG 14, 2025
  • Imprint : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Page Extent : 208
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781399614559
  • Price : INR 599
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Rosalind Brown

Rosalind Brown was born in 1987, grew up in Cambridge, and now lives in Norwich. Her work has been published in The Paris Review, Best British Short Stories 2017 (Salt), Lighthouse, Ambit, MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture and Propel Magazine.

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