The Literary Voyeur: Sisters by Daisy Johnson

Presenting The Literary Voyeur: Sisters by Daisy Johnson. Reviewed by Megan Duffy for In the Stacks.

Hi. This is Megan. Welcome to my In the Stacks Video Book Review. Today I am going to tell you about Daisy Johnson’s latest novel. If you don’t know Daisy Johnson, she’s a British author, the youngest ever to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She has one other novel called Everything Under and a collection of short stories called Fen. Her latest, Sisters, is similar to her other work in that it is a kind of fantastical, gothic, noir, ghost-story all rolled into one. This story centers on the lives of two sisters, September and July. They are ten months apart. They are in their teens and they are completely inseparable. Together with their mother, they move to the coast of England to a ramshackle house called the Settle House. And like with some of Daisy’s other stories the house becomes a character in itself. It quickly becomes apparent that there is something not right at Settle House and there is also something not right with the sisters. If you like mysteries, twisting plots, surprise endings, and beautiful prose, I highly recommend Sisters by Daisy Johnson.


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