📱 eBook en inglés THE SHUTTER OF SNOW (FABER EDITIONS)

Introduced by Claire-Louise Bennett, experience one new mothers psychological journey in this lost 1930 foremother of Sylvia Plaths The Bell Jar.

Astonishing and moving. A pretty amazing book.Tessa Hadley
Extraordinary. A fascinating and unexpected delight.Lucy Ellmann
Haunting and evocative, this is a timeless portrayal of madness.Catherine Cho
A startling, luminous and magnetic novel about the complexity of motherhood.Yiyun Li
With its deep musicality, Colemans unforgettable voice was years ahead of its time.Sinéad Gleeson

The only thing to do is to put hammers in the porridge and when there are enough hammers we shall break down the windows and all of us shall dance in the snow.

Some days, Marthe Gail believes she is God; others, Jesus Christ. Her baby, she thinks, is dead. The red light is shining. There are bars on the window. And the voices keep talking.

Time blurs; snow falls. The doctors say it is a breakdown; that this is Gorestown State Hospital. Her fellow patients become friends and enemies, moving between the Day Room and Dining Hall, East Hall and West Side, avoiding the Strong Room. Her husband visits and shows her a lock of her babys hair, but she doesnt remember, yet - until she can make it upstairs, ascending towards release ...

Shocking and hilarious, tragic and visceral, this experimental portrait of motherhood and mental illness written in 1930 has never felt more visionary.