LANDSCAPES

Sold to Doubleday Canada and Two Dollar Radio in the US, this debut novel blends diary and essay, exploring memory, possession, and the capacity of art as an instrument for recollection, set in a haunting near-future of ecological disaster

• In a ruinous country house in the now barren English countryside, Penelope, an archivist, catalogues the remaining artifacts of her country estate, as she reflects on artworks depicting violence against women and reconciles herself with her own experience of assault two decades ago, prompted by the impending visit of her partner's brother, Julian, under whose hands Penelope suffered 22 years ago – his visit looms large over her and she finds herself unable to tamp down the past in her efforts to build a future
• Recalling the works of Rachel Cusk and Kazuo Ishiguro, Landscapes is an evocative reinvention of the pastoral and the country house novel for our age of catastrophe and announces the arrival of an extraordinarily gifted new writer