Literary Fiction Novel Development
Budget: £10 – £20 GBP
I'm seeking beta readers for my novel 'Circuitry'.
It follows Clara, a woman approaching forty, as she returns to England from Berlin for her mother's funeral. The novel interweaves her present-day journey with fragmented memories from her past, gradually revealing the cyclical nature of her struggles with mental health, identity, and self-destruction. It is an intricate and unflinching look at one woman's cyclical spiral towards oblivion. While unafraid to confront the bleak, the book remains a human and ultimately hopeful story. At its centre is the question of whether we are the stories we inherit, the ones we tell ourselves, or something altogether more murky and undefined.
Drawing on themes of memory, identity, and time, 'Circuitry' is literary fiction for fans of: Olivia Sudcic’s Asylum Road; Miriam Toews’ All My Puny Sorrows; Annie Ernaux’s The Years; Joan Didion’s Play it as it Lays; Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You?; Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women; Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers; Ian McKewan’s Lessons; John Williams’ Stoner.
It follows Clara, a woman approaching forty, as she returns to England from Berlin for her mother's funeral. The novel interweaves her present-day journey with fragmented memories from her past, gradually revealing the cyclical nature of her struggles with mental health, identity, and self-destruction. It is an intricate and unflinching look at one woman's cyclical spiral towards oblivion. While unafraid to confront the bleak, the book remains a human and ultimately hopeful story. At its centre is the question of whether we are the stories we inherit, the ones we tell ourselves, or something altogether more murky and undefined.
Drawing on themes of memory, identity, and time, 'Circuitry' is literary fiction for fans of: Olivia Sudcic’s Asylum Road; Miriam Toews’ All My Puny Sorrows; Annie Ernaux’s The Years; Joan Didion’s Play it as it Lays; Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You?; Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women; Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers; Ian McKewan’s Lessons; John Williams’ Stoner.