Annie John
07 July 2022Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
A haunting and tragicomic tale of the end of childhood, Annie John is told with Jamaica Kincaid’s trademark candour and complexity, and is a true coming-of-age classic.
An adored only child growing up in Antigua, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and content life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful and influential presence, who sits at the...
Details
07 July 2022160 pages
9781529077131Imprint: Picador
Reviews
So touching and familiar it could be happening to any of us . . . and that's exactly the book's strength, its wisdom, its truthThe New York Times Book Review
What a writer – elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex.Ali Smith
So neon-bright that the traditional story of a young girl's passage into adolescence takes on a shimmering strangenessElaine Kendall, Los Angeles Times
An unaffectedly sumptuous, irresistible writer. . . thrillingSusan Sontag
