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By (author) Watson Rebecca
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The new novel from Rebecca Watson, one of the Observer”s best debut novelists of 2021 and shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize.
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”Profoundly moving, funny and beautifully written.” Michael Magee
”Completely immersive.” Natasha Brown
”Exceptional and startling.” Colin Barrett
It wasn”t just the being hurt, it was the endlessness of it, us misfiring without break without end without rest, unableto peacefully be in the same place.
It”s been six years since Rosa stopped talking to her brother. And now it”s too late: too late to forgive, too late to make amends. But her brother had tried, hadn”t he? With him gone, Rosa must look back at the years of silence, at everything she has long held as true. As she gathers together the pieces her brother left behind, their shared history curves into a question mark. Who was her brother? What was the other side of the story?
”A one-of-a-kind storyteller.” Observer
From the acclaimed author of little scratch, this is a moving, powerfully honest novel about how we love, how we grieve and how we forgive.
Biographical note:
Rebecca Watson is the author of little scratch, which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize. She is one of the Observer”s 10 best debut novelists of 2021. Her work has been published in the TLS, the Guardian, Granta and elsewhere. In 2018, she was shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize. She works part-time as Assistant Arts Editor at the Financial Times and lives in London.
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The new novel from Rebecca Watson, one of the Observer”s best debut novelists of 2021 and shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize.
Review quote: previous edition:
A one-of-a-kind storyteller gifted with a winningly refreshing mix of traits: unorthodox in form yet compulsively readable, playful and mischievous in spirit while seriously thoughtful.
Review quote: previous edition:
Rebecca Watson”s unique style is completely immersive; I felt as though I was inside Rosa”s head, spiralling with her into uncertain memories. I Will Crash is an unforgettable ghost story.
Review quote: previous edition:
I Will Crash proves once again that there is nothing received, nothing complacent, nothing taken for granted in the writing of Rebecca Watson. Her writing builds itself from first principles, concentrates itself into only what is essential and startling, in a voice that feels both carved and floating.
Review quote: previous edition:
I Will Crash places the reader firmly in the consciousness of a narrator confronted with the myriad and often conflicting impulses that arise from childhood trauma. Watson”s scattered sentences produce a deeply mesmeric and almost destabilizing effect on the reader. It”s profoundly moving, funny, and beautifully written. A masterclass on the art of ellipsis.
Review quote: previous edition:
An ambitious tale of sibling feuding and grief.
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