Consent

Consent
Annabel Lyon
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 224pg
6 Jan 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781838952471
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Saskia and Jenny - twins - are alike in appearance only. Saskia is a grad student with a single-minded focus on her studies, while Jenny is glamorous, thrill-seeking, and capricious. Still, when Jenny is severely injured in an accident, Saskia puts her life on hold to be with her sister. Sara and Mattie are sisters with another difficult dynamic. Mattie, who is younger, is intellectually disabled. Sara loves nothing more than fine wines, perfumes, and expensive clothing, and leaves home at the first opportunity. But when their mother dies, Sara inherits the duty of caring for her sister. Arriving at the house one day, she is horrified to discover that Mattie has married their mother' s handyman. The relationship ends in tragedy. Now, Sara and Saskia, both caregivers for so long, are on their own - and come together through a cascade of circumstances as devastating as they are unexpected. Razor-sharp and profoundly moving, Consent is a thought-provoking exploration of the complexities of familial duty, of how love can become entangled with guilt, resentment, and regret.
Quietly ambitious and beautifully achieved. * Hilary Mantel, on Annabel Lyon * Extremely skilful * Financial Times, on Annabel Lyon * Confounds expectations * Observer, on Annabel Lyon * Beguiling and rewarding * Irish Examiner, on Annabel Lyon * Conjures a pungent, raucous world -- Francesca Wade * TLS, on Annabel Lyon * Potently elegiac . . . Lyon shows with chilling precision just how quickly a life can unravel . . . She has a knack for intrigue, the sizzle behind seemingly ordinary remarks, and she uses this to great effect. * Guardian on Annabel Lyon * This generation' s answer to Alice Munro * Vancouver Sun * Combining ethical dilemmas with material indulgence, Consent is a heady, intoxicating blend. In slick and sensual prose, Lyon challenges what it means to be a sister, a carer, an addict, an enabler and maybe even a murderer. * Ruth Gilligan, author of THE BUTCHERS * Mesmerizing. . . An intense, intimate novel of love, grief, and murder [with] a deliciously dark conclusion. * Publishers Weekly * A genuinely surprising read, rooted in a keen, if unsettling, understanding of human nature. . . Consent defies conventional narrative, embracing instead a sense of emotional time. . . This is, after all, how we think and feel, how families and relationships develop and age, how we grow. Life, Lyon shows, isn' t a straight line. * Robert J. Wiersema, Toronto Star *
Annabel Lyon is the author of the novel The Golden Mean, a bestseller in Canada that won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor-General' s Award, and has been translated into fourteen languages. She is also the author of a story collection, Oxygen; a book of novellas, The Best Thing for You; and two juvenile novels, All-Season Edie and Encore Edie. She lives in British Columbia with her husband and two children.
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ISBN-13: 9781838952471
Published: 6 Jan 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 197g
Pages: 224

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