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A Line You Have Traced

Roisin Dunnett

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English
Miscellaneous
15 April 2025
Reminiscent of Cloud Atlas, this gorgeous speculative novel asks the question: How do we live meaningful lives if we believe the future will be worse than the present?

Against a backdrop of growing violence and environmental collapse, three women living centuries apart each search for meaning and connection after becoming obsessed with a mysterious red book. In post-World War I London, Bea encounters an uncanny figure she believes is an angel as the life she is building in the Jewish East End is threatened by fascists. In contemporary East London's underground queer scene, Kay parties with her friends while imagining herself visited by time travelers. And years in the future, Ess--part of a collective preparing for the end of human life on earth--prepares to make a journey into the past to possibly help save the present.

Roisin Dunnett's brilliant debut A Line You Have Traced asks what we owe to those who will come after us, and what it might cost us.
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Imprint:   Miscellaneous
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
ISBN:   9781558613874
ISBN 10:   1558613870
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Roisin Dunnett holds a degree in English literature from Clare College Cambridge and an MA in creative and life writing from Goldsmiths, where she was longlisted for the Pat Kavanagh Prize in 2022. Her stories have been published in Prototype, Hotel, Ambit, Vittles, and elsewhere, and her fiction pamphlet Animal, Vegetable was published in 2021 by Broken Sleep Books. She lives in London.

Reviews for A Line You Have Traced

Praise for A Line You Have Traced ""I don't know which I admire more: the casual beauty of the sentences, the cunning of the design, or the tact and compassion with which A Line You Have Traced weaves together its three layers of time into its instructions for the end of our world."" --Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill ""This is a gloriously innovative, endlessly surprising gut punch of a novel. Dunnett is a dazzlingly original, luminous new voice in fiction. . . . If the novel has any future at all, then this is it."" --Rebecca Tamás, author of Witch


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