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‘Weird, sensitive, haunted. A deeply influencing spectacle, identical parts beauty and horror, and unlike whatever you will examine this year’ TEA OBREHT, writer of Orange Prize winner, The Tiger’s Wife

LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOT Award 2019

‘Brutal, palpable, hynoptic. A dazzling, troubling desire’ COLIN BARRETT

In house within a wood, Ada and her father live peacefully, maintaining their garden as well as the wildlife in it. They are not human being though. Ada was created by her father about Follow Me To Floor from the bottom, a distinctive patch of earth with birthing and healing properties. Though probably he didn’t get her quite correct. They spend their times healing the local human folk – named Remedies – who check out them, suspiciously, using their ailments.

When Ada embarks on a relationship with an area Treat named Samson, and it is forced to choose between her old existence with her dad, and a new one with her human lover. Her decision will uproot the city – and the Ground itself – for ever.

A poised and simmering tour-de-force, FOLLOW ME TO Surface is a sinister eyesight of desire and freewill, voiced in earthy prose and eviscerating detail by an astoundingly original new writer.

LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOT Award 2019

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