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BRIGHT AND DANGEROUS OBJECTS
A surprising and authentic novel about female ambition and motherhood for fans of Sally Rooney and Jenny Offill
Thirty-seven year old Solvig has a secret. She wants to be one of the first human beings to colonise Mars. And she's one of a hundred people shortlisted by the Mars One Project to do just that.
But to fulfil her ambition, she'll have to leave everything she's ever known, for the rest of her life. She'll have to leave her job as a deep sea diver, sacrificing the strange liberty she feels trapped thousands of feet under water in a saturation chamber. She'll have to leave her father, old and in need of care, and always on her mind. And she'll have to leave James, her partner - who wants to try for a baby.
As her application proceeds much further than expected, Solvig has some big decisions to make. Will she come clean to James, or continue her application covertly? Or will she turn her back on the project, and recommit to the life she's built for herself?
Of course, when she discovers she's pregnant, Solvig finds a sharp new clarity but has it come too late?
Frank, engaging and moving, BRIGHT AND DANGEROUS OBJECTS asks how women can balance motherhood with their own dreams. It would appeal to readers who appreciated the honesty of Sheila Heti's MOTHERHOOD and the sharp humour of Miranda July.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anneliese Mackintosh's fiction has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland, and published in UK newspapers, magazines and anthologies. Her debut short story collection ANY OTHER MOUTH won the Green Carnation Prize, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society's First Book Award, in the Best Short Story Collection category for the 2015 Saboteur Awards and Edge Hill Short Story Prize, and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
Anneliese's debut novel, SO HAPPY IT HURTS, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2017, and promptly shortlisted for a DIVA Rising Star Award.
But to fulfil her ambition, she'll have to leave everything she's ever known, for the rest of her life. She'll have to leave her job as a deep sea diver, sacrificing the strange liberty she feels trapped thousands of feet under water in a saturation chamber. She'll have to leave her father, old and in need of care, and always on her mind. And she'll have to leave James, her partner - who wants to try for a baby.
As her application proceeds much further than expected, Solvig has some big decisions to make. Will she come clean to James, or continue her application covertly? Or will she turn her back on the project, and recommit to the life she's built for herself?
Of course, when she discovers she's pregnant, Solvig finds a sharp new clarity but has it come too late?
Frank, engaging and moving, BRIGHT AND DANGEROUS OBJECTS asks how women can balance motherhood with their own dreams. It would appeal to readers who appreciated the honesty of Sheila Heti's MOTHERHOOD and the sharp humour of Miranda July.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anneliese Mackintosh's fiction has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland, and published in UK newspapers, magazines and anthologies. Her debut short story collection ANY OTHER MOUTH won the Green Carnation Prize, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society's First Book Award, in the Best Short Story Collection category for the 2015 Saboteur Awards and Edge Hill Short Story Prize, and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
Anneliese's debut novel, SO HAPPY IT HURTS, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2017, and promptly shortlisted for a DIVA Rising Star Award.
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Published 2020-10-01 by Tin House Books |