Katherine Carlyle | 
pickA unique story by a writer I hadn't come across until I heard him recommended on backlisted. The opening introduces Katherine as an embryo, frozen but having to wait to be implanted. Skip to K,19, living in Rome, her reporter father flying around the world but neither parent or child managing grief. Plot then skips to Berlin, Moscow, + the Arctic as K learns who she is through various encounters. Grt to find a new writer whose writing feels fresh
pickA young woman goes on a journey to the middle of nowhere, following the death of her mother. She has a complicated relationship with her father, and all men actually. I could never decide if I liked her or disliked her or just felt sorry for her. But she has an interesting story to tell.
Listening to my first episode of the Backlisted podcast, and they're raving about this British writer, Rupert Thomson. The most underrated British writer, and most deserving of a Booker prize. The most European British writer. A writer who dissolves genre. I didn't put these in quotation marks but they are my paraphrases of some of their superlative exclamations. I'd never heard of him but am certainly intrigued now!
A true gem rediscovered while going through my books. I *really* want to read this. Love the opening sentences.
