In 2018, Daisy Johnson became the youngest writer ever to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize with her debut novel *Everything Under*, a gender-fluid reimagining of the Oedipus myth set among canal boats and featuring a monster. Since then, she's given us *Fen* (blended uncanny and workaday), *Sisters* (psychological horror about sibling bonds), and *The Hotel* (chilling ghost stories). Now comes *Long Wave*, which - while sharing some of these hallmarks - is finer, more subtle, and arguably her strongest work yet.

*Long Wave* traces three generations of mothers. As a small child, Ori was found "abandoned" on a wild, uninhabited island off the coast of England. What happened to her mother, and why they fled there together (only for Ori to be later adopted by a scientist specializing in hares), returns with full force when Ori becomes a new mother herself and struggles to cope. It's a tangled story of secrets, childhood, abandonment, and care - and it might just be her best work yet.