Claire-Louise Bennett
Claire-Louise Bennett is the author of Pond and Fish Out of Water. Her novel Checkout 19 was published by Jonathan Cape in 2021.
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‘I want the reader to be conscious of reading and not being just drawn into the book and forgetting themselves and forgetting their life.’
Claire-Louise Bennett on her novel Checkout 19.
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Checkout 19
Claire-Louise Bennett
‘Month after month I ruefully drop the most perfect shade of red down the toilet and flush it away.’
An excerpt from Claire-Louise Bennett’s forthcoming novel.