Isabel Waidner

A radical, joyful novel from Goldsmiths Prize-winning author Isabel Waidner. In flight from a traumatic rural childhood, Corey Fah has come to earth in a one-bed council flat in the capital. Trapped, with partner Drew, in the limited world which late capitalism has allotted them, they are modestly happy but practically futureless. Until, one day, Corey is offered a life-changing...

Trailblazing author Isabel Waidner returns with an existential cat-and-mouse story of grief, loss, ambition, and the possibility of making oneself anew. Two men meet in a flat in London. They are total strangers and yet they look remarkably alike. Lewis is grieving his dead wife; Korine is hiding from his very-much-alive one. Lewis never had children; Korine is an ambivalent...