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Follow Me to Ground - Sue Rainsford - 2019
A Novel
By: Sue Rainsford
Narrated by: Adam Sims, Francine Brody, Kate Handford, Crystal Clarke, Ame Finegan, Jamael Westman
Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 08-08-19
Language: English
Genre: Fiction, Literary
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
Publisher's Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
Longlisted for The Desmond Elliot Prize 2019.
A haunted, surreal debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that culminates in a shocking moment of betrayal - one that upends our understanding of power, predation, and agency.
Ada and her father, touched by the power to heal illness, live on the edge of a village where they help sick locals - or “Cures” - by cracking open their damaged bodies or temporarily burying them in the reviving, dangerous Ground nearby. Ada, a being both more and less than human, is mostly uninterested in the Cures, until she meets a man named Samson. When they strike up an affair, to the displeasure of her father and Samson’s widowed, pregnant sister, Ada is torn between her old way of life and new possibilities with her lover - and eventually comes to a decision that will forever change Samson, the town, and the Ground itself.
Follow Me to Ground is fascinating and frightening, urgent and propulsive. In Ada, award-winning author Sue Rainsford has created an utterly bewitching heroine, one who challenges conventional ideas of womanhood and the secrets of the body. Short but authoritative, Follow Me to Ground lingers long after listening, pulling the listener into a dream between fairy tale and nightmare, desire and delusion, folktale and warning.
©2019 Sue Rainsford (P)2019 Penguin Audio
Critic Reviews
"Weird, tender, haunted. A deeply affecting spectacle, equal parts beauty and horror, and unlike anything you will read this year." (Tea Obreht, author of Orange Prize winner The Tiger’s Wife)
"Fierce, palpable, hypnotic. A dazzling, troubling dream." (Colin Barrett)
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