Sisters

Sisters is not a typical psychological thriller. The novel focuses on family secrets and the boundaries between love and control.

Two sisters, July and September, move to an isolated house with their mother after a traumatic event. The sisters have an intense and complex bond. The story gradually reveals the truth behind the sisters' relationship and the events that brought them to their new home.

Goodreads

Grief is a house with no windows or doors and no way of telling the time.

 

Excerpt from the Book:

The room the window leads into is a pantry. We are holding hands by the time we get inside. Beneath the window there is a dirty tiled floor, chipped where it meets the damp wall. Wooden shelves. Some cans of soup and beans, a couple of packets of off-color spaghetti. There is a smell, almost sweet, with an undertone that I cannot quite identify. The ceiling is low and the bare bulb bumps off the top of my head.

September is humming the way she does when she is excited and wants me to know it. Her hums can mean all sorts of things. Hello, where are you/Come here/Stop that/I’m annoyed with you. I realize that I am afraid of the house and of Mum being angry and of September being annoyed. We have been here before, only once, but I do not remember it well.

Details:

• author: Daisy Johnson
  
• full title: Sisters
  
• genre: literary fiction
  
• format/type: bookfiction
• country: UK
  
• topics: #sisters, #relationships, #familysecrets
  
• publisher: Riverhead Books
  
• publish date: August 25, 2020
• pages: 220
  

My Rating of the Book:

• content: 💙💙💙💙.5

About the Author:  

Daisy Johnson is the youngest author ever shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, with her first novel, Everything Under, in 2018. Her short story collection, Fen, received the 2017 Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She lives in Oxford, England.