Claire-Louise Bennett’s last novel, Checkout 19 , was one of the best things I read in 2022. In 2025, Bennett is back with another novel that plays with the slipperiness, vitality and insufficiency of language, memory, and the experience that is so vulnerably assembled by language and memory. Another novel told by a nameless narrator who shares many biographical details with her author (a female writer of working-class, west-country origins,
