EAN: 9781803510019

STUDY FOR OBEDIENCE - SARAH BERNSTEIN KARTONIER...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023  WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2023  LONGLISTED
FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2023  NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH
NOVELISTS 2023   A powerful  compressed masterwork for fans of Shirley Jackson and
Claire-Louise Bennett   A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country
to be housekeeper to her brother  whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many
siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their
every desire  smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience  with the highest
degree of devotion. The country  it transpires  is the country of their family's ancestors  an
obscure though reviled people.  Soon after she arrives  a series of unfortunate events occurs -
collective bovine hysteria  the demise of a ewe and her nearly-born lamb  a local dog's phantom
pregnancy  the containment of domestic fowl  a potato blight. She notices that the local
suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed particularly in her case. What is
clear is that she is being accused of wrongdoing  but in a language she cannot understand and
so cannot address. And however diligently and silently she toils in service of the community 
still she feels their hostility growing  pressing at the edges of her brother's property. 
Inside the house  although she tends to her brother and his home with the utmost care and
attention  he too begins to fall ill...

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