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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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- Paperback Jul 14, 2020 | 9780349700304 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Apr 9, 2019 | 9780349700311 | RRP $34.99 Buy Now
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A remarkable, moving and original coming-of-age story about a girl resisting the savagery of adulthood while stranded on an eroding island inhabited by an isolated, unwelcoming elderly community.
WINNER OF THE WRITERS' GUILD FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2020
ELLE ONES TO WATCH 2019
'Not since Holden Caulfield have I been so captivated by a first-person voice as the one Season Butler creates in CYGNET' Blake Morrison
'A bright new voice in literature' Bernardine Evaristo
'Terribly moving' China Mieville
'A beautiful book, a meander through the fluid anxiety of youth' Uzodinma Iweala
'[A] potent debut . . . A strange, promising beginning' Observer
The Kid doesn't know where her parents are. They left with a promise to come back months ago, and now their seventeen-year-old daughter is stranded on Swan Island.
Swan isn't just any island; it's home to an eccentric old age separatist community who have shunned life on the mainland for a haven which is rapidly sinking into the ocean. The Kid's arrival threatens to burst the idyllic bubble that the elderly residents have so carefully constructed - an unwelcome reminder of the life they left behind, and one they want rid of.
CYGNET is the story of a young woman battling against the thrashing waves of loneliness and depression, and how she learns to find hope, laughter and her own voice in a world that's crumbling around her.
Praise for Cygnet
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An original novel with a memorable narrator - Elle (Eight Books to Devour)
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Season Butler has written an imaginative, atmospheric and original novel that lingers in the memory long after reading . . . A bright new voice in literature - Bernadine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other
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Terribly moving. A clear-sighted, poignant rumination on loneliness, love, the melancholy of age and of youth - and, in its quiet way, the end of the world
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Season Butler is an extraordinary writer. In this wonderful novel the narrative voice is rhythmic and compelling, telling a coming of age story which resonates with our times. Like Colson Whitehead, her work is fearless in its inventiveness. I've always thought Season was the real deal, this book proves that she has arrived - Julia Bell, author of The Dark Light
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An uncanny meditation on mortality and intergenerational distrust - Metro
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[A] vivid, poetic debut - Daily Mail
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Not since Holden Caulfield have I been so captivated by a first-person voice as the one Season Butler creates in Cygnet . . . [it's] sad, funny, highly original - Blake Morrison, author of Things my Mother Never Told Me
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Cygnet is a beautiful book, a meander through the fluid anxiety of youth, an observation of fixed imperfections of age, and a longing search for compassion on the journey between
Season Butler
Season Butler is a writer, artist and dramaturg born in Washington, DC. Through her work, she explores her interest in identity and otherness, the opportunities and traps of hindsight and hope, and what it means to look forward to an increasingly wily future. An early draft of Cygnet was shortlisted for the SI Leeds Prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian Women. She lives and works between London and Berlin.
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