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Local DescriptionDescription: 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 *
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. |