House Mother Normal
14 February 2013
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
With an introduction by poet Andrew Motion.
Eight residents in a home for the elderly sit down to dinner, along with the House Mother herself, and each takes it in turn to relay the proceedings of the evening from their own, individual perspective. By virtue of the novel’s clever structure, the reader’s comprehension of events is limited so as to...
Details
14 February 2013
224 pages
9781447200383
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Never sentimental, at once corrosive and elegiac, House Mother Normal is a remarkable achievementNew York Times
Don’t think that because Johnson took stylistic risks that he must be unapproachableGuardian