![]() ![]() When her brother becomes a father and Sylvia a recluse, Lizzie is forced to acknowledge the limits of what she can do. Sylvia has become famous for her prescient podcast, Hell and High Water, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right wingers worried about the decline of western civilization.Īs she dives into this polarized world, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you’ve seen the flames beyond its walls. They have both stabilized for the moment, but then her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. For years, she has supported her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. ![]() But this gives her a vantage point from which to practise her other calling: as an unofficial shrink. Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. ‘What are you afraid of, he asks me and the answer of course is dentistry, humiliation, scarcity, then he says what are your most useful skills? People think I’m funny’ SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 ![]()
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