Follow Me to Ground

Author(s): Sue Rainsford

Novel | Ireland

Description: A stunning and unsettling new novella which heralds the arrival of a powerful new voice in Irish literature.


Sue Rainsford achieves something quite uncanny: believability. Her characters are not human (as “normally conceived”) but human-like creatures who live on the edge of a village and tend to the sick and dying by burying them in the ground. They yearn for real human experience, which, as in other such stories, may cost them the loss of their powers. But they are so believable that you might be forgiven for looking for them yourself. This book is deeply evocative of what it might be like to find true healing in nature, if not in ourselves.


Review: Seethingly assured ... odd and muscular enough to resist easy interpretation. It can be read on many levels - as a fable about female yearning, or about containment and contagion; as an investigation into toxic relationships or a puzzle over the borders between human and non-human - but it is always singularly and entirely itself * GUARDIAN *
Enthralling . . . Lyrical, dark and detailed, the story twists like a root, bent in one way by desire, in another by fate. * Daily Mail *
Impressive . . . Rainsford is a writer to watch. * Metro *
tangled, gnarled, wonderfully original, strange, beautiful beast of a book * DAISY JOHNSON *
Rainsford writes beautifully with a lyrical, earthy prose which is evocative and eviscerating yet mesmerising. She gives Ada a unique voice which fills and haunts the narrative. One of the strangest books I've read in a long time, it is utterly compelling and will linger, uninvited, in your consciousness long after you've turned the last page. * Irish Independent *


 


 


Author Biography: SUE RAINSFORD studied History of Art at Trinity College, Dublin, and works as an arts writer. While studying Visual Arts she read Simone de Beauvoir and became fascinated by the poetic, metaphorical language around the female experience. From here emerged the book's hints of magic realism and other unique imagery. Sue Rainsford lives in Dublin. Follow Me to Ground is her first novel and was longlisted for the Desmond Eliot Prize. Her second, Redder Days, is due to be published by Doubleday in 2021.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781848406889
  • : New Island Books
  • : books

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  • : Sue Rainsford