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This short, epigrammatic novel reflects the fragmented mind of its depressed, insomniac narrator, who finds her creative life paralysed when she gives birth to a daughter.

As a young woman, she dreamed of being an “art monster”, but finds that she has to settle for being a mother.

When her career stalls and her marriage founders, she is forced to reassess the value she puts upon “mundane things”. Lacing together “fun ...