Mare

Incredible, wonderfully weird and thought-provoking. I loved its take on gender and physicality, and our proximity to the natural world -- Natasha Onwuemezi Captivating and unique. A novel I had no idea I was yearning for until I started to read it. Mare is already the winner of a significant prize and deserves to become a classic -- Sophie Hannah Immersive, tender, nuanced and radically attentive to the strangeness and wonder of human love - for each other, for a mouse, for a horse. A blissful read -- Fiona Benson A bold, deft and deeply moving story about animal love and motherhood, and what it means to be devoted to another being. With extraordinary suppleness and an arresting lightness of touch, Haworth-Booth travels deep into the joys, mysteries and heartaches of relationships to reveal a vision of attachment that is startlingly lucid, and liberated. A daring book, and a brilliant one - a beautiful challenge for our times -- Helen Jukes * author of Mother Animal * Emily Haworth-Booth writes the heartbreak of a body, of the world, of caring, with immense tenderness and humour. I loved the peripheries of solitude and communion traced in this wild, melancholy, marvellous novel -- Aysegül Savas * author of The Anthropologists * What a special book! I love Emily's funny, honest writing, so deeply particular and still profoundly relatable. She takes the knotty, strange thoughts that our minds catch on, daily, and makes them clear and beautiful -- Lizzy Stewart * author of Walking Distance * An extraordinary, daring book... Haworth-Booth makes the private, mundane, knotty details of one woman's days hum with life. In the quiet rituals of care - brushing, feeding, noticing - she finds a rhythm that is both tender and exacting. This is a novel about how we might express ourselves, if only we allowed ourselves that freedom. About ways of mothering, about friendship, about connecting to both the human and more-than-human world... Mare is precise, vital, utterly compelling. I loved it -- Gemma Seltzer * author of Ways of Living * Finely observed and exquisitely written... A wonderful and surprising work that goes to the heart and stays there -- Sophie Herxheimer * author of Ode to Joy * This intimate book is not a memoir, a treatise, a novel, a poem, a lyric essay, a lament, or a joke - but is also, excitingly, all of these things. It blurs the boundaries of genre, but also of species, bodies and gender... A gorgeous, generous work that is tough, vulnerable, and analytically sharp -- Alison Winch A moving love story that gallops across the species divide, and yet somehow leaves the reader clearer in their humanity -- Ruth Allen * author of Weathering and Grounded *