Claire Nicholls

It's a beautiful novel.

It's called Having Spent Life Seeking.

It's by Kay Tempest and it's published by Jonathan Cape, London.

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Yeah, look, it is.

And it serves a few purposes in the book.

But the book is sort of, it's this book that lives at the edge of consciousness in a way.

So there's all these kind of things that happen.

Like there's characters that get PTSD from a dream.

There's sleepwalking, sleep talking, hypnosis.

And a lot of it is about kind of free will.

And I thought rolling a dice to decide one's fate early in life is probably a good way to do that.

And it's, yeah, some people find it dark.