Mrs Caliban (Faber Editions): 'Genius' - Patricia Lockwood

Mrs. Caliban is a novel by Rachel Ingalls that follows the affair of a suburban housewife with a frogman. It is a magical tale that explores the weirdness and otherness of love and relationships. The novel has received critical acclaim for its beautiful writing, its subversive nature, and its examination of gender politics and mental health.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 05 August 2021
Publisher: Faber & Faber

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The Times praised "Mrs Caliban" by Rachel Ingalls as a devastating fable of mythic proportions. Set in the Californian suburbs, the story follows a grieving housewife named Dorothy as she struggles with the loss of her husband and the challenges of her everyday life. Ingalls's writing is wondrously peculiar, with a sense of magic and a deep understanding of the human heart.

Ingalls's novel "Mrs Caliban" is a bittersweet fable, a subversive fairy tale, as magical today as it was four decades ago. A miracle. A perfect novel.

The New Yorker praised "Mrs Caliban" by Rachel Ingalls as a fantastic wee novel, strange and brilliant, and absolutely the inspiration for "The Shape of Water." Readers are raving about the book, with one describing it as "maybe the most gorgeous, lyrical book ever written" and another calling it "a fantastic wee novel, strange and brilliant, and absolutely the inspiration for "The Shape of Water."

Harper's praised "Mrs Caliban" by Rachel Ingalls as a "wonderful wee novel, strange and brilliant, and absolutely the inspiration for "The Shape of Water." Readers are raving about the book, with one describing it as "maybe the most gorgeous, lyrical book ever written" and another calling it "a fantastic wee novel, strange and brilliant, and absolutely the inspiration for "The Shape of Water."

Weight: 126g
Dimension: 130 x 198 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780571367986
Edition number: Main