My Death

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A writer decides to write her next book about a female author and artist unjustly forgotten by history. But what starts as an exciting research project rapidly unravels towards breakdown and horror. The subject is to be Helen Ralston, an early twentieth-century author who has been systematically written out of history. The narrator sets about investigating her story as an artist, writer and muse to a much more famous man. Amazingly Ralston turns out to be still alive, and although elderly and frail a series of interviews begin. But a tale about the historic erasure of female voices starts to break down into something even more sinister, bizarre and all-consuming as the narrator uncovers unnerving parallels between Ralston’s story and her own.

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A struggling writer hits on the subject for her next book: a biography of an overlooked female artist. But her literary detective work soon leads to bizarre, unnerving twists…

The book will be about Helen Ralston, a visionary early twentieth-century artist and writer who seems to have been completely wri-tten out of history. Amazingly Ralston turns out to be still alive and a series of conversations between the two women begins. But a story about the historic erasure of an extraordinary female voice starts to break down into something even more sinister when the narrator begins to uncover unnerving parallels between Ralston’s story and her own.

‘An astonishing and deeply strange novella… Inspired, delicate and quite sinister’ Mariana Enriquez

‘Short, uncanny provocative’ Lauren Elkin, New York Times

‘Exhilarating! What an absolutely beguiling book with an ending that left me breathless and giddy’ Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch

Additional information

Weight 288 g
Dimensions 19.7 × 12.9 × 1.1 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

128

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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