About this Event
A crackling, comical, tender, and highly original novel about mental health, the certainties of medicine, buried trauma, love, death and time lost in the crushing – and comical – hopes of modern life.
Vita Woods is on the brink. The days are dark, as much as things are going right. Vita is not leaving the house. In fact, she can barely make it out of bed.
Instead, she spends long, blurred hours falling in and out of "The Pit," dead to the world and to herself. For months, Vita has been sick with an illness that no doctor can diagnose. And recently, Luigi, a Renaissance poet nursing a 500-year-old heartbreak, has started showing up at her bedside, bringing snacks and unsolicited romantic advice. He says he's come to release her. The issue is: he may be a ghost, an apparition of her sickly mind.
Then, when, an unexpected mix-up pushes her into the path of her upstairs neighbors, Vita finds friendship - and perhaps more - in the apartment above. But something about her "condition" keeps nagging at her. What if the problem is Vita herself? Because as far as anyone can prove...there's nothing wrong with her.
‘Wonderfully inventive… a hallucinatory, amazingly capcious novel’ 4* review in The Telegraph
‘A funny, philosophical novel that perfectly captures the surreal state of invisible illness… remarkable’ The Independent
Kate Weinberg was born and lives in London. She studied English at Oxford and creative writing in East Anglia. She has worked as a slush pile reader, a bookshop assistant, a journalist and a ghost writer. She is the author of one previous novel, The Truants.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
At the Chapel, 28 High St, Bruton, United Kingdom
GBP 11.55
