Dreaming of Dead People Christie Agatha One of six novels to

One of six novels to be nominated for a 'Lost Man Booker Prize'

A mother and a daughter take off on a road trip after the collapse of a marriage

Laura Shallcrass is an artist and author

Kiki Kogelnik

brutal autobiography of his first six years of life is an elegiac sense of community and roots from a rural South that had rarely been represented in this way

Dreaming of Dead People Christie Agatha One of six novels toIn the middle of life Lavinia reviews her frustrations, her solitariness, the grief and the rapture, her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the masks of Owl, for winter, and Cuckoo, for erotic love. Dreaming of Dead People, first published in the UK in the 1970s, remains as surprising, frank, mordantly funny and raw as ever.