She begins to remember the private vocabulary of her childhood. Now Gretel works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary nature.Ī phone call from the hospital interrupts Gretel’s isolation and throws up questions from long ago. She hasn’t seen her mother since the age of sixteen, though – almost a lifetime ago – and those memories have faded. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. Words are important to Gretel, always have been. Everything Under is long listed for the Man Booker prize this year and is a retelling of Oedipus, not a myth many would tackle and certainly not in the way that this book does! Today I am reviewing the second of the Greek Mythology retellings from this year (the first being Circe which I still haven’t written a review for…). Hello humans! As many of you know, this year I have read a number of retellings, so many in fact that I have decided to name this the year of ALL THE RETELLINGS.
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