The Last Sane Woman (Paperback)

Paperback. I want to read about women who can't make things.'Nicola is a few years out of a fine arts degree, listless and unenthusiastically employed in London. She begins to spend her hours at a university archive dedicated to women's art, because she 'wants to read about women who can't make things'. There she discovers one side of a correspondence beginning in 1976 and spanning a dozen years, written from one woman a ceramics graduate, uncannily like Nicola to her friend, who is living a contrasting and conventionally moored life. As she reads on, an acute sense of affinement turns to obsession, and she abandons one job after another to make time for the archive. The litany of coincidences in the letters start to chime uncomfortably, and Nicola's feeling of ownership begets a growing dread: what if she doesn't like what the letters lead to? A beguiling debut novel about friendship and failure. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…