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- ISBN 9781914148286
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 13 Apr 2023
- Publisher: Fairlight Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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'Stark and brilliant; a must-read for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider' —Jessica Andrews, author of Saltwater and Milk Teeth
'There's a gap where my sense of place should be. It's quite a useful one sometimes. It allows me to sit on the cusp of an opinion.'
When a young woman moves to the Netherlands, she finds herself becoming increasingly disconnected to those around her. Over days spent alone, freelancing in her apartment, she picks through the details of her life with an obsessional devotion. But when she develops an uneasy friendship with Colette, a woman she neither likes nor can keep away from, anxieties about her purpose - or lack of it - begin to take over.
In shining prose, award-winning Phoebe Walker's debut novel picks apart a young woman's paranoia and anxiety.
Intimate, incisive and brilliantly observed, Temper explores loneliness and self-worth with head-nodding accuracy.
'There's a gap where my sense of place should be. It's quite a useful one sometimes. It allows me to sit on the cusp of an opinion.'
When a young woman moves to the Netherlands, she finds herself becoming increasingly disconnected to those around her. Over days spent alone, freelancing in her apartment, she picks through the details of her life with an obsessional devotion. But when she develops an uneasy friendship with Colette, a woman she neither likes nor can keep away from, anxieties about her purpose - or lack of it - begin to take over.
In shining prose, award-winning Phoebe Walker's debut novel picks apart a young woman's paranoia and anxiety.
Intimate, incisive and brilliantly observed, Temper explores loneliness and self-worth with head-nodding accuracy.
Phoebe Walker is an award-winning poet originally from Northumberland in the North of England, and now living in Manchester.
Her debut poetry pamphlet, Animal Noises, received an Eric Gregory Award in 2021 and she also won the Mairtin Crawford Poetry Award in 2019 and a Northern Writers' Award for poetry in 2012.
Phoebe's poetry has been published in Ambit, Under the Radar, The Tangerine, The Moth, Magma and was included in the Northern Poetry Library's 'Poem of the North' exhibition. Temper is her debut novel.
Her debut poetry pamphlet, Animal Noises, received an Eric Gregory Award in 2021 and she also won the Mairtin Crawford Poetry Award in 2019 and a Northern Writers' Award for poetry in 2012.
Phoebe's poetry has been published in Ambit, Under the Radar, The Tangerine, The Moth, Magma and was included in the Northern Poetry Library's 'Poem of the North' exhibition. Temper is her debut novel.
