Sisters

"Looking for a creepy read to take your mind away from the horrors of now? July and September, the titular sisters born 10 months apart, are completely enmeshed with one another, living just this side of wild in a mouldering house on the English coast. Daisy Johnson dials up the dread notch by notch as you slowly learn the story of how the teen sisters arrived at their decrepit destination, after being bullied at their Oxford school. So good I mailed copies to three friends."

"We have some real treats to look forward to in the coming weeks. Daisy Johnson (who became the youngest ever author to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize with her previous book, Everything Under ), is imminently to release her second book, a work of gothic horror called Sisters, which is bound to be a novel on everyone’s lips throughout fall 2020 . It’s about a pair of uncannily close teenage siblings who move to the north of England after an incident at their previous high school in Oxford. Eerie and oppressive, reminiscent of Shirley Jackson. Support Five Books Five Books interviews are expensive to produce. If you're enjoying this interview, please support us by donating a small amount . Fellow literary wunderkind Emma Cline (author of The Girls , the stylish novel of personality cult and murder that was just everywhere in the summer of 2016) is also publishing a collection of short fiction: Daddy , out 1 September. And, Americans: don’t miss The Discomfort of Evening by the Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, when it’s finally released in the US later this month. I discussed it with Ted Hodgkinson a few months ago; he called it “absolutely extraordinary,” adding: “I get tingles when I even think about this book.”"