Strange Talk

£9.99

Amie has always heard things other people can’t. Her rickety old house is alive with voices: smug comments from the fridge, needy cries from the smoke alarm, romantic overtures from the toaster. Then there’s Door, Amie’s closest friend, whose voice has abruptly gone quiet. When her nephew Jay comes to stay unexpectedly, Amie is forced to let the outside world into the house. As she helps Jay to navigate his sexuality and estrangement from his parents, with backup from her eccentric ‘found family’ of appliances, she begins to acknowledge her own secret longings. But does the object of her desires feel the same?

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Scheduled for publication on 5th November, 2026
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SKU: 9781914148842 Category: Tag: Publisher/imprint : Fairlight Books
Page count : 400
Published on 5th November, 2026

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Amie has always heard things other people can’t. Her rickety old house is alive with voices: smug comments from the fridge, needy cries from the smoke alarm, romantic overtures from the toaster. Then there’s Door, Amie’s closest friend, whose voice has abruptly gone quiet. When her nephew Jay comes to stay unexpectedly, Amie is forced to let the outside world into the house. As she helps Jay to navigate his sexuality and estrangement from his parents, with backup from her eccentric ‘found family’ of appliances, she begins to acknowledge her own secret longings. But does the object of her desires feel the same? A wonderfully weird, darkly funny and endlessly surprising novel from award-winning author Lynda Clark.

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Dimensions 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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