The Night Alphabet - Joelle Taylor

''Joelle Taylor brings extraordinary linguistic inventiveness to a tale of tattoo artists and violence against women'' Guardian (Fiction Books of the Year, 2024) ''A glorious jewel of a novel'' Sophie Ward''Exhilarating, profoundly beautiful and exquisitely written'' Salena Godden''A mesmerising debut from one of the most talented literary stylists writing today'' The Bookseller''Hugely imaginative'' Marie Claire (Best New Books, 2024)''It''s hard to think of many books more restlessly inventive'' Guardian (Book of the Day)''Utterly dazzling'' DIVA---------------------------------------------------------------------------------The tattoo was a reclamation, a flag we mounted in the centre of our own landscape.A woman walks into a tattoo parlour. But this is no ordinary woman, and this is Hackney in 2233. Jones'' body is covered in tattoos but she wants to add one final inking to her gallery - a thin line of ink mixed with blood that connects her body art together, creating a unique map.As the two artists set to work, Jones tells them the story behind each tattoo. As Jones is no ordinary woman, these are no ordinary stories: each one represents a doorway to a life Jones fell into, a ''remembering''. Some of these lives were in the past, others in the future, some are sideways, but each of them connects Jones to the two tattoo artists in some way, though they are unaware of it.We visit the dystopian cities of the Quiet Men, the coal mines of 19th century Lancashire, join a gang
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