{"product_id":"emma-recommends-long-wave-daisy-johnson","title":"Emma recommends... Long Wave - Daisy Johnson","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe're excited to be welcoming Daisy Johnson to Collected to discuss \u003cem\u003eLong Wave\u003c\/em\u003e on Friday 14 August, 7.30pm. Get your tickets for the event \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/collectedbooks.co.uk\/products\/daisy-johnson-long-wave-friday-14-august-7-30pm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Event tickets: Daisy Johnson on Long Wave\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e---\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmma says... I already knew Daisy Johnson was pretty special (I will literally NEVER forget where I was when I finished reading \u003cem\u003eEverything Under\u003c\/em\u003e) but this book has absolutely confirmed that she is. Packed with gorgeously poetic and yet highly specific language, vivid imagery and characterisation - Johnson's ability to pin down seemingly amorphous, indescribable experience is astounding. At the same time, \u003cem\u003eLong Wave\u003c\/em\u003e is a very grounded story of precarity, of those who live on the margins, of adoptive family. A deeply affecting exploration of how the inevitable consequence of love is the fear of separation, \u003cem\u003eLong Wave\u003c\/em\u003e is sublime and I can feel it firmly lodged in my heart and my mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e---\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClose to the shore is the island: uninhabited, wild, with only a storm-beaten lighthouse for shelter. Ori was found there as a small child with a handful of stones, no memories and no mother.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen she has a baby of her own, the job of motherhood feels immense and sleepless nights begin to shatter her grip on reality. Her head fills with the sound of stones knocking against each other and the mystery of her past begins to unravel, opening up a path to the mother she lost, and the mother she could become. Years earlier, on a sweltering summer day, ten-year-old Ruth sees a woman and her baby walk into the river and disappear.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut she is the only witness, and the water yields no trace. Ruth’s mother, Edith, locks her daughter away – first to restrain these wild imaginings, and later, when she falls pregnant, to hide the shame. Ruth longs to escape and dreams of the nearby island, where she and her baby can finally be free.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Collected","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57183668011388,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/5662\/2637\/files\/9781787332300.jpg?v=1784278208","url":"https:\/\/collectedbooks.co.uk\/products\/emma-recommends-long-wave-daisy-johnson","provider":"Collected","version":"1.0","type":"link"}