Little Bandaged Days

For fans of Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, Little Bandaged Days is the dark and gripping story of a mother who loves her children so much, it might just be driving her mad . . .

Zusatztext I found it horribly seductive and almost read it through my fingers with a level of recognition and dread. Any mother of young children will recognise the fringes of the feelings evoked by such clear pellucid prose and startling imagery. It's a fantastically visceral and vivid account of the onset of madness set against the backdrop of a polite, middle-class setting: the mundane refracted through the hallucinatory Informationen zum Autor Kyra Wilder received her BA and MA in English Literature at San Francisco State University, where she then worked under Michael Tusk at the Michelin-starred Quince, making pasta. She continued working in restaurants in New York, before moving with her family to Switzerland, where she is now based. Little Bandaged Days is her first novel. Klappentext Wilder artfully cranks up the tension, so you don't quite know when you begin to hold your breath. A chilling read' Oyinkan Braithwaite, author of My Sister, The Serial KillerA mother moves to Geneva with her husband and their two young children. In their beautiful new rented apartment, surrounded by their rented furniture, and several Swiss instructions to maintain quiet, she finds herself totally isolated. Her husband's job means he is almost never present, and her entire world is caring for her children - making sure they are happy, and fed and comfortable, and that they can be seen as the happy, well-fed, comfortable family they should be. Everything is perfect. But, of course, it's not. The isolation, the sleeplessness, the demands of two people under two, are getting to Erika. She has never been so alone, and once the children are asleep, there are just too many hours to fill until morning . . . Kyra Wilder's Little Bandaged Days is a beautifully written, painfully claustrophobic story about a woman's descent into madness. Unpredictable, frighteningly compelling and brutally honest, it grapples with the harsh conditions of motherhood and this mother's own identity, and as it continues, we begin to wonder just what exactly Erika might be driven to do. Vorwort For fans of Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, Little Bandaged Days is the dark and gripping story of a mother who loves her children so much, it might just be driving her mad . . . Zusammenfassung For fans of Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, Little Bandaged Days is the dark and gripping story of a mother who loves her children so much, it might just be driving her mad . . ....

Vorwort
For fans of Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, Little Bandaged Days is the dark and gripping story of a mother who loves her children so much, it might just be driving her mad . . .

Autorentext
Kyra Wilder received her BA and MA in English Literature at San Francisco State University, where she then worked under Michael Tusk at the Michelin-starred Quince, making pasta. She continued working in restaurants in New York, before moving with her family to Switzerland, where she is now based. Little Bandaged Days is her first novel.

Klappentext

Wilder artfully cranks up the tension, so you don't quite know when you begin to hold your breath. A chilling read' Oyinkan Braithwaite, author of My Sister, The Serial Killer

A mother moves to Geneva with her husband and their two young children. In their beautiful new rented apartment, surrounded by their rented furniture, and several Swiss instructions to maintain quiet, she finds herself totally isolated. Her husband's job means he is almost never present, and her entire world is caring for her children - making sure they are happy, and fed and comfortable, and that they can be seen as the happy, well-fed, comfortable family they should be. Everything is perfect.

But, of course, it's not. The isolation, the sleeplessness, the demands of two people under two, are getting to Erika. She has never been so alone, and once the children are asleep, there are just too many hours to fill until morning . . .

Kyra Wilder's Little Bandaged Days is a beautifully written, painfully claustrophobic story about a woman's descent into madness. Unpredictable, frighteningly compelling and brutally honest, it grapples with the harsh conditions of motherhood and this mother's own identity, and as it continues, we begin to wonder just what exactly Erika might be driven to do.

Zusammenfassung
For fans of Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, Little Bandaged Days is the dark and gripping story of a mother who loves her children so much, it might just be driving her mad . . .