Amaryllis Night and Day

Proof Copy. 8vo. Pp. [xii], 176, [4 (blank)]. Illustrated, printed wraps.

Author's tenth novel, set in a solidly detailed London, utilises a compellingly lucid but disorienting narrative: "The first time Peter Diggs saw Amaryllis she was at a bus stop where the street sign said BALSAMIC although there was nothing vinegary about the place."

"The narrative... has all the hallmarks of Hoban's ungovernable invention. Freighted with allusions to high art and low culture, alternately jokey and portentous, it proceeds in associative fashion, each passage spewing another half-finished staircase that might lead into thin air. At times one has the impression Hoban writes merely for himself, but watching his ludic mind is pleasure enough for the most exacting reader." –The Guardian