Author: Fanny Howe
Publisher: Divided
Paperback
Burley Fisher Books of the Year 2025
Sam says… I’m very late to the work of Fanny Howe, a many-hyphenate American writer who we sadly lost this year, and whose books have been championed by the very excellent Divided Press. In London-rose, a novel published in 2022 but largely written in the 1990s we get a profound meditation on work and suffering which seems, both in its lyrically aphoristic style and its autofictional content, to prefigure a lot of what drives fiction making today. It’s full of arresting sentences and stays with you long after you close it.