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Highly praised literary debut by a young Irish star-in-the-making- 'A seethingly assured debut' GUARDIAN

About the Author

SUE RAINSFORD studied History of Art at Trinity College, Dublin, and works as an arts writer. While studying Visual Arts she read Simone de Beauvoir and became fascinated by the poetic, metaphorical language around the female experience. From here emerged the book's hints of magic realism and other unique imagery. Sue Rainsford lives in Dublin. Follow Me to Ground is her first novel and was longlisted for the Desmond Eliot Prize. Her second, Redder Days, is due to be published by Doubleday in 2021.

Reviews

Seethingly assured ... odd and muscular enough to resist easy interpretation. It can be read on many levels – as a fable about female yearning, or about containment and contagion; as an investigation into toxic relationships or a puzzle over the borders between human and non-human – but it is always singularly and entirely itself
*GUARDIAN*

Enthralling . . . Lyrical, dark and detailed, the story twists like a root, bent in one way by desire, in another by fate.
*Daily Mail*

Impressive . . . Rainsford is a writer to watch.
*Metro*

A tangled, gnarled, wonderfully original, strange, beautiful beast of a book
*DAISY JOHNSON*

Rainsford writes beautifully with a lyrical, earthy prose which is evocative and eviscerating yet mesmerising. She gives Ada a unique voice which fills and haunts the narrative. One of the strangest books I've read in a long time, it is utterly compelling and will linger, uninvited, in your consciousness long after you've turned the last page.
*Irish Independent*