Everything Under
Booker Prize · 2018 · Shortlist
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize | 2018 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Gretel has lived her whole life under the shadow of her mother Sarah's disappearance. Now in her twenties, she is trying to find her mother, and in doing so must excavate the strange childhood they shared on a narrowboat on the Oxford canals. A dark, mythic novel in the tradition of Greek tragedy, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2018.
About the Author
Daisy JohnsonBritish
Daisy Johnson is a British novelist and short story writer born in 1990. Her debut short story collection Fen (2016) won the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Everything Under (2017) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2018, making Johnson the youngest author ever shortlisted for the prize at age 27. Read more →
