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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...
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An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts, her fantasies, her wishes, as she writes about - or tries to write about - Shakespeare's sonnets
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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
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781399614559
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 August 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 186g
Pages: 208
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About the Author
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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