Debut novel from six-times Bridport Prize finalist: a darkly comic and sharply observed mother-daughter relationship as it unfolds episodically over 50 years. Mother and daughter Caroline and Erica are best of friends and worst of enemies. Set in the American mid- and south-west, their story unfolds over more than 50 years against a backdrop of sweeping social change. Feisty and argumentative, they roll with the punches, surviving car crashes, awkward family gatherings, relationship disasters-and plastic surgery. Sharply observed and darkly comic, Magnetism exposes the stigma and experience of mental health problems, infertility, homosexuality and single parenthood, and notches a riveting new path through this most fundamental of family ties. This is an extraordinary debut-brutally honest, gloriously wry and unexpectedly uplifting. | Magnetism by Ruth Figgest, Paperback | Indigo Chapters