Delphi (Signed 1st Edition)

Clare pollard

ISBN 10: 0241558530 / ISBN 13: 9780241558539

Published by Fig Tree, 2022

About this Item

Black boards with white titles. Firm binding and clean pages. Jacket is not price clipped. 1st Impression. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Delphi (Signed 1st Edition)
• Publisher: Fig Tree
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241558530
• ISBN 13: 9780241558539
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed By Author

About this title

Synopsis

'I am sick of the future. Up to here with the future. I don't want anything to do with it; don't want it near me'

It is 2020 and in a time more turbulent than any of us could have ever imagined, a woman is attempting to write a book about prophecy in the ancient world.

Navigating the tightening grip of lockdown, a marriage in crisis, and a ten-year-old son who seems increasingly unreachable, she becomes fixated on our many forms of divination and prediction: on oracles, tarot cards and tea leaves and the questions we have always asked as we scroll and click and rage against our fates.

But in doing so she fails to notice the future creeping into the heart of her own home. For despite our best intentions - our sacrifices and our bargains with the gods - time, certainty and, sometimes, those we love, can still slip away ...

Heartbreakingly relatable and achingly funny Delphi is both a snapshot and a time capsule, deftly capturing our pasts, our presents, and how we keep on going in a world that is ever more uncertain and absurd.