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Ava Anna Ada

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Summer is swelling around the village. Heat is surging, people are whispering about a great hungry wave, and in the garden, Anna is kicking her dying dog on the grass. But someone is watching her. The girl. Ava. Outside, the brutal summer blisters on. Inside, over the course of one claustrophobic week, Anna and Ava become caught up in their own world. Become swallowed by each-otherness. But what does Ava really want? As faces fray and secrets splinter, the past casts the present anew, and Anna and Ava are forced to reckon with who they truly are. Because who we are, ‘Ava Anna Ada’ warns us, is not always the same as what we are to each other.

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‘Visceral and vibrant; piercingly astute’
Wendy Erskine

‘A bracingly original tale of lust and malice’
Rob Doyle

‘A unique and fiercely original debut novel’
The Herald

‘A weird, furious, fucked-up fable’
Keiran Goddard

‘A bleeding, sweating story’
Guardian

How do we live at the end of the world?

Over the course of one claustrophobic week, in an eerie, sweltering English summer somewhere in the near-future, Anna meets Ava. As Anna grieves her dead daughter, a dying landscape and a future they might have shared, Ava’s mysterious pull swallows her whole. But what does Ava really want? Who are they both, really? And what are they to each other?

Braiding climate chaos, lust, politics, poetry and violence, Ava Anna Ada is a contemporary, dystopian fable, which asks us: what if the apocalypse has been and gone, and nobody noticed?

‘A perverse, dark tale of shifting identities, deceit and manipulation’
Financial Times

‘So striking . . . like seeing our last few years through a distorted fever-dream’
Lucy Caldwell

Additional information

Weight 0.24 kg
Dimensions 19.6 × 12.8 × 2.2 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

192

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

923.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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