A SEVERAL WORLD

A SEVERAL WORLD is a keenly perceptive novel for anyone who has loved something or someone

It is about the significance of small objects, the giving and receiving of them, the losing and finding of them. It is the story of the inhabitants of a little café by the sea, starting with the story of a waitress, Ana, and her peculiar journey to understanding love and loss. Ana is led by chance to Therese and the world of her café. She longs to be part of it and to get to know the people who inhabit it. When tragedy befalls the café, Ana is faced not only with grief but the mysterious reappearance of a lost and precious object, returned to her by one of the regular customers, whose lives are equally touched by love and loss. Crosse deftly sweeps the reader up with clean and honest prose, an unexpected journey that transports us out of the café to Paris, the Isle of Mull, and back again to the café. A journey which helps Ana come to terms with her tragedy and to reconnect with her past. Zosia Crosse is of Polish and English heritage and was born in 1985. Zosia worked in a café in the small town she grew up in whilst studying for her teacher training. After three years as a teacher she joined the Creative Writing MA at Bath Spa University in 2012. Zosia is a feminist and an activist and is currently writing her second novel. On Twitter she is @ZosiaCrosse A SEVERAL WORLD is an extremely accomplished debut, surprising and moving in turn. Zosia's writing and structural integrity strongly reminded me of Maggie O'Farrell or Sarah Waters and would be great fit for fans and publishers of their work, along with Sadie Jones, Zadie Smith or Anita Brookner.