Checkout 19

*A BOOKS OF 2021 PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL, DAILY TELEGRAPH, IRISH TIMES CULTURE AND NEW STATESMAN*\r\n\r\nYet I couldnt quite discard the idea that somewhere in the story there might have been a sentence, just one sentence, of such transcendent brilliance it could have blown the world away. And that idea burned in me, on and on. \r\n\r\nWith fierce imagination, a woman revisits the moments that shaped her life, and what follows is a mesmerising, adventurous, and at times devastating story of art, love, fantasy and experience.\r\n\r\nCheckout 19 is a novel of immense power. It shows how we struggle to define the events in our lives, even as they go on defining us. The complexities of personal freedom surge and spark within its pages, and reinvent what the novel can do.