From the author of FOE now a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal Penny
an artist has lived in the same apartment for decades surrounded by the artifacts and
keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the mundane rituals of old age until things
start to slip. Before her longtime partner passed away years earlier provisions were made
unbeknownst to her for a room in a unique long-term care residence where Penny finds herself
after one too many incidents.” Initially surrounded by peers conversing eating sleeping
looking out at the beautiful woods that surround the house all is well. She even begins to
paint again. But as the days start to blur together Penny – with a growing sense of unrest and
distrust – starts to lose her grip on the passage of time and on her place in the world. Is she
succumbing to the subtly destructive effects of aging or is she an unknowing participant in
something more unsettling? At once compassionate and uncanny told in spare hypnotic prose
Iain Reid’s genre-defying third novel explores questions of conformity art productivity
relationships and what ultimately it means to grow old. ‘I loved this book and couldn't put
it down – a deeply gripping surreal and wonderfully mysterious novel. Not only has Reid given
us a brilliant page turner but a profoundly moving meditation on life and art death and
infinity. Reid is a master’ Mona Awad author 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and All's Well
