The Delivery

The Delivery is a novel by acclaimed author Fish Soup that explores family, memory, and possibility. It follows the life of a protagonist who receives an enormous crate, containing her estranged mother, and examines the past and the subtle fissures in her life. The book is a wickedly self-aware exploration of the bonds of family and the strange things that happen when you look at them sideways.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 169 pages
Publication date: 24 October 2023
Publisher: Charco Press

From the acclaimed author of Fish Soup comes a wickedly self-aware novel of family, memory, and possibility, just this side of the uncanny.

A tolerable, ordinary life: an adequate, if boring, freelance job; reliably irritating video calls with your sister; half-hearted plans for the future (a writing residency, a child); and, in the middle of your half-furnished apartment, an enormous crate. Unopened, delivered days ago, and getting in the way.

In The Delivery, what's inside is your estranged mother, and her arrival brings to a head the tentative motions you've made to examine the past and the subtle fissures in the life you've built. Semi-ordinary happenings take on an otherworldly cast when you look at them sideways, but nothing is stranger, in this place far from home, than the tenuous bonds of family that hold us together, or don't.

Dimension: 198 x 129 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781913867690